Visit History

Use Visit History to view information about a patient's health care visits. 

Help Topics on This Page

- Multiple Patients Linked to Your User Account
- View Patient Visit History
- Visit History Overview
- Visit History Columns
- Sort Visit History

Multiple Patients Linked to Your User Account

If you are authorized to use the patient portal to access the health care information of multiple people, for example if you are a patient and also the proxy for a child, upon log in you see a "Select Patient:" dropdown list at the top of the page. Use this list to switch between your linked accounts. Visit History is in the context of the patient whose name, gender, and age are displayed at the top of the portal page. More on multiple linked accounts.

View Patient Visit History 

Select Visit History in the menu bar to view a patient's visit history. Visit history is in the context of the patient whose name, gender, and age are displayed at the top of the portal page.

Visit History Overview

  • Visit History displays the selected patient's visits across their health care community.
  • Visit History will only display visits to facilities that are connected to the health information exchange. 
  • Visit History will only display visit information that the patient's providers have chosen to share with the patient via the patient portal.

Visit History Columns

  • Visit Type: the category of visit, e.g., inpatient, emergency, outpatient, etc.
  • Visit Date: the date of the visit in mm/dd/yyyy format and the time of the visit
  • Facility: the location of the visit
  • Provider: the health care provider associated with the visit
  • Account Number: the visit identifier
  • MRN: Medical Record Number - the patient identifier at the associated facility
  • Face Sheet*: a document tied to a particular visit; a point-in-time snapshot / collection of information pertaining to the visit

*Only patient portal users with a particular authorization will see the Face Sheet column on the Visit History page. Also, not all visits will have an associated Face Sheet on the Visit History page.

Sort Visit History

A patient's visit history can be sorted by any column header field.

  • Select any column header field to sort the Visit History.
  • An up arrow  next to the field indicates an ascending sort order, i.e., a to z; 1 to 10; oldest date to most recent date. 
  • A down arrow  indicates a descending sort order, i.e., z to a; 10 to 1; most recent date to oldest date. 
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