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Last modified: August 15, 2024

Deleting and archiving patients

Overview

To prioritize the protection and security of health data and patient privacy, practitioners can’t permanently delete patients from their dispensaries. Though you can’t delete accounts, you can archive a patient account, preventing them from viewing their supplement plans and placing orders.

Tip!

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act of Canada (PIPEDA) require us to store patient health data, including supplement plans, in Fullscript.

Archiving patients

When a patient account is archived, they’ll no longer be able to sign in to your dispensary to view their plans or place orders. This can be used if you’re no longer seeing patients, they’ve requested to be removed from your dispensary, or if you don’t recognize patients who sign up from your website on their own (from a Fullscript website button) and want to prevent any dispensary purchases that you’re not comfortable with.

Archiving a patient’s account will prevent them from accessing the dispensary, including existing supplement plans and order history. These patients can request information from their previous orders by contacting our Customer Success team.

To archive a patient:

  1. In the Patients tab, search and select the patient’s profile. 
  2. While hovering over the patient in the search results, click the More options ( ) button.
  3. Click Archive patient.
  4. Confirm by clicking Yes, update and archive patient.
Archiving a patient account from a dispensary.
Archiving a patient account from a dispensary.

Tip!

Archiving a patient adds the archived patient to the archived patient list. Patients won’t be notified when their account is archived. To view archived patients in your patient list, use the Patient Status filter and select Archived.

Restoring patients

When a patient’s account has been archived, the action can be reversed to restore access to their account.

To restore a patient:

  1. In the Patients tab, click Patient Status.
  2. In the dropdown, click Archived.
    Click patient status, then Archived to view archived patients
  3. Scroll to the patient profile you’d like to reactivate, then click on the More options ( ) button.
  4. Click Restore patient.
    click more options, then restore patient

Deactivating patients

Patient accounts can’t be permanently deleted. We recommend archiving them to block access to the dispensary. If a patient requests that their account be formally deactivated, patients can contact our Customer Success team to have their email address deactivated.

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