Add your first patient

Patients → Add patient.

Consent is not optional, and it’s not us being cautious

You cannot save a patient record without recording their consent. This isn’t a setting, and there is no way to turn it off.

The Philippine Data Privacy Act (RA 10173) treats health information as sensitive personal information, and a clinic holding it needs a lawful basis. Building the app so a record can’t exist without consent means the question gets asked at the one moment it’s easy to ask — with the patient in front of you — rather than reconstructed later for a record that’s already three years old.

We record that consent was given, and when.

What a record holds

• The basics — name, birthday, sex, contact number, address
• A chart number, which the app assigns
• Guardians, for a minor
• Tags, for anything your clinic sorts patients by
• Remarks, for the things that don’t fit anywhere else

Clinical information — medical history, the dental chart, notes, photos, forms and prescriptions — lives inside the record once it exists.

Steps

1. Go to Patients and choose Add patient.
2. Fill in the basics. Name is the only thing you truly need to get started.
3. Record consent.
4. Save.

Entering a birthday

The birthday is three separate boxes — day, month, year — not a calendar picker. That’s deliberate: picking 1962 out of a scrolling calendar is miserable, and typing three short numbers is faster for everyone.

Half-finishing a birthday leaves the old one alone. If you clear the year and walk away, the app treats that as an unfinished edit rather than as “this patient has no birthday”, so nothing is quietly destroyed.

Duplicates

The same person gets added twice — different spelling, married name, a walk-in nobody searched for first. Patients → Find duplicates looks for likely pairs, and merging keeps both records’ history rather than picking one and discarding the other.

Next: record a visit and take a payment.