Overview | Encounter Details

General information on patient encounters is found in Encounter Details. An encounter can be described as a record of any patient interaction. This includes patient visits to the physician’s office, but also non face-to-face interactions such as telephone calls.

The concepts in this folder provide information regarding when the encounter happened, where it happened, and various statuses of the encounter and the patient during the encounter. More detail on these areas is provided in the sections below.