Reverting Changes

What can be reverted

Every change to a patient record is kept in its audit trail. Where a change altered something that can be edited, the audit trail also offers a Revert button that puts the changed values back as they were immediately before that change.

Reverting is available on the audit trail for:

• Text entries in a patient's notes
• Patient details, such as name, date of birth, contact details and address
• Custom field data recorded against a patient
• Patient alerts
• Descriptions of uploaded files
• Text entry templates

Only edits can be reverted. The creation of a record has no earlier version to return to, and a deleted record is brought back with the Restore button rather than by reverting. Deleted records cannot be reverted until they have been restored.

How to revert a change

Open the audit trail for the record — the History button on a text entry, patient record, alert, uploaded file or template, or the history icon next to a custom data field. Find the change you want to undo in the timeline and click Revert, then confirm.

Reverting is recorded too

A revert is recorded in the audit trail as a change in its own right, marked Reverted and attributed to the user who performed it. To ensure compliance, nothing is ever removed from the audit trail, and the entry that was reverted stays in place.