EMR - Merging Duplicate Patients
Written by Amelia Boyer
Updated at February 10th, 2026
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This video and tutorial will walk you through the easy merging of duplicate patients. This is a great way to clean up your patient list and make sure that you do not have any redundancies within the system.
Please Note: Terminology is different based on your setting. For example; a setting may use Organization as Location, Patient instead of Athlete, Encounters instead of Treatment, or Problems instead of Injuries - but the steps are still the same.
Video Tutorial
Step-By-Step Tutorial
- Navigate to the organization that houses the duplicate profiles
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Go to the Patients tab within your organization menu.
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Click the three dots to the right of one of the patient profiles that you would like to be merged, select Merge Patient
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Click Select to search for the second patient to merge
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Type in name of the patient you wish to merge with the existing profile you have selected
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Pick which profile you would like to keep and which you'd like to remove by selecting the double reverse arrows in-between profiles
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Select Merge
