Home Forums Discussions General Discussion whoops... I saved a chart to the wrong patient

I opened what I thought was patient A's chart; wrote my note for patient A and saved it. Then I discovered that I was really writing in patient B's chart.

Is there any way to undo this? All I can think to do is write an addendum to patient B's chart.

Any other suggestions?

Nope. You're stuck. All you can do is put an addendum in patient B's chart saying "wrong patient" and re-do for patient A. it has happened to us all. We all hate this aspect of the EHR.

Actually, since I hate the term "impossible", there is one way, but it is a really bad idea. You could trash your data file and recover from your backup then re-do everything since the backup. As I said possible, but really stupid to try.

Is there any way to create a backup file in addition to using the backup utility.
I tried to just copy and paste the amazing charts file but it said I could not do that because the sql server was open.

UMmmmm.... Richard..... That part of my post was meant as a joke. Pleasepleaseplease don't take it seriously!

I didn't. For my problem above , I just added an addendum and redid the note correctly.

But this was a new topic question.
I was wondering if there is an alternate way to back up the AC data besides using the backup utility or doing a complete image backup.
Just wondering.

I use Backup Assist, and I makes incremental backups hourly.
From this I could restore but would lose the last hour of patients. I do what was suggested above, make a new visit or a AC message indicating the wrong note was saved.

what is the exact file that you backup, or do you back up the whole AC folder