in this video you will learn how to add a new patient I'm Robert down a project administrator of open EMR let's get started begin by logging in to open EMR I'm using a standard receptionist account next I'll hover over patient and select new search open EMR requires four fields to be filled out by default they are first name last name date of birth and sex we can enter additional information about the patient in this case we'll add a provider and we'll acknowledge that they've received HIPAA compliance paperwork additionally we'll set their language to English and finally click create new patient open EMR automatically checks for duplicate patients but in this case let's just click confirm create new patient we're now taken to the patient summary screen we can see the information we've entered by clicking through the various tabs we can edit any of the information by clicking the edit button next to each section let's add an address for this user click Edit next to demographics click on the contact tab and enter the address click Save we can verify the information has actually been entered by hovering over the contact tab and selecting it now let's just try to add a patient that already exists in the system hover over patient and select new patient enter the same information as before first name last name date of birth and sex for this example we'll skip the rest of the information this time when we click create new patient you notice open EMR has identified a duplicate record if this is actually a duplicate we can click right on the patient row and be taken straight to the patient summary screen for the proper patient