HealthCare: Patient Name should be Customer's name about marley HOT 9 CLOSED

@Zlash65 I think this will create even more accidental duplicates if customer field is not mandatory and a new customer is created on save. So it should be a strict dependency as in any case being a patient is just a subset of being a customer, for, a hospital might have other products and services for customers who are non patients e.g Yoga or Fitness classes, Workshops for Medical Students, Supplement Subscriptions etc.

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Will this serve the purpose ?
Saving the Patient will create Customer with the same name and that customer will have a link back to the Patient entry. Its a two way link between both and in a closed loop yet [ deleting either of them would be not possible. As such deleting a patient or a customer from System is really not necessary right? ]

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Agree. Deleting is not advised as the info is always required. But you should be able to disable the Patient and not the customer as I might need to buy something from the pharmacy as customer.

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Hi,
is the function of automatically creating a customer with the same name of the patient, already implemented in the last version of ERPNext?

Thanks
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By having a seperate Patient name and linked Customer name allows a clinic to have a Patient but bill an insurance company or a state authority. Maybe children under 5 might get Govt sponsored immunisation as an example. I don't think that Patient medical records should be able to be deleted easily but see no reason why Customer info needs to be so stringent.

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      Hi,

is the function of automatically creating a customer with the same name of the patient, already implemented in the last version of ERPNext?
Thanks
Bye

@mascor From what I see currently in the last version (v10) what it does is it creates a patient first and then use that auto generated Patient ID as the name of the new customer it generates. I think this flow it totally flawed. As I mentioned above it should be the other way round - Being a patient is just a subset of being a Customer

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@mascor Good point.

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This is fixed in the latest versions.

When "John Doe" patient is created, a customer with name "John Doe" is created.

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Closing this issue. Feel free to open if you are still facing the issue.

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