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Managing categories

Quickly organize, filter, and find your information. Bring organizational changes for the whole institution around common criteria.

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Written by Support LeoMed
Updated over 3 years ago

This article addresses the general aspects of category management.

Other related articles :

  • Categorizing subject's health information : To see the application of categories specifically to subject health information, read this article.

  • Categorizing forms, playbooks, and protocols : To see the application of the categories specifically to protocol and form tools, read this article.


In this article

Categories offer a limitless amount of ways to organize, filter, and retrieve important information and tools. Create and adjust them in ways just right for your team’s context.


Permissions needed to manage categories

In order to make changes, the user must have a role defined by the institution that allows them to make these modifications.


Where to manage categories

Click:

  1. Configuration

  2. Categories

  3. “Add” or the category to be edited

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Editing options

Type of category

The kind of information gathered through this category could be :

  • Single choice (yes/no)

  • Multiple choice

  • A date

  • Or free text

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Linked objects

You can categorize various items (click on either one for a more detailed and specific article) :

Shown by default

In the column shown below, you can see if a category will or will not be displayed by default in all patient records.

By clicking on the category you can check or uncheck this option.



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