Chapter 3: Patient Registration and Unknown Patients

1. Purpose#

To govern patient demographic intake, UHID issuance, ABHA verification, and the rapid registration of unidentified emergency patients.

Emergency triage counters, outpatient registration desks, and trauma admission intake.

Registration Staff, Emergency Medical Officers, and Admitting Clerks.

Patient demographic details, government photo identification or Aadhaar/ABHA credentials.

1. Open Patient Registration at `/clinical/patients/create`.

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ID: hospital/h05_registration_annotated

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Callout 1: Primary demographics entry fields including full name, age, gender, and contact phone.
Callout 2: ABHA verification input field with instant ABDM registry query button.
Callout 3: Ayushman Bharat PM-JAY beneficiary verification toggle.

For trauma or unconscious victims arriving without identification, select Unknown Patient.

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ID: hospital/h06_unknown_patient

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The system generates a temporary UHID (e.g., UNK-AGR-2026-0042) and prompts for physical descriptors and escort details.

Standard intake completed under 3 minutes. Emergency unknown patient record created within 60 seconds.

If ABHA OTP transmission fails, proceed with demographic registration. When the patient is identified later, utilize the patient merge workflow.

Master patient index on isolated clinical connection, unknown patient incident register, and identity verification logs.