Dolphin's Tip of the Month April - Archiving Patient Records Archiving patient records with the Dolphin Imaging System is quick and simple. You can copy or transfer the patient's records to floppy disks, removable media, or to a different location on your network or hard drive. This frees hard disk space for new patients. Patient moves to a new location. You want to transfer images to or from satellite offices.
Transfer records to a referring doctor or another colleague.
The Archive Operation dialog has three functions. Save Patient to Archive , Load Patient from Archive , and Merge Patient from Archive . Clicking on the Archive button from the Patient Charts dialog accesses these functions. The rest of this article will discuss these three functions in more detail. Saving the Patient Record To save a patient to a Zip drive, for example, select the patient in the patient list and click on the Archive button.