I just sent in a bug report for this, as I have seen two cases in the last month. I am unsure exactly how it happened. I'm on version 7.1. Is there any reason EVER why a message clearly labeled with one patient's name should be saved to a different patient? I think not, and thus it should not be possible (don't even have a prompt that asks). Once a chart has someone else's info in it, it is a pain to make sure no HIPPA violations occur with record releases. I think you could construct a clean chart, by using the notes and imported items from the contaminated one. Then you would rename the contaminated one as "SmithXXX, JohnXXX", for example, so you can still see it, but stop using it. I have not yet tried this, and it could be tedious with a big chart, especially if you wanted all the progress notes to be as progress notes and not as imports. And there is always the risk of breaching the space-time continuum....
