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Just wondering if there is someway to input maiden names?

Sometimes, women come in who have been married/divorced and we spend a while looking for a card/hard copy opg etc, under the wrong name

Also, is it possible to have childrens surnames different from either, or both parents? We have a couple of wards of the state, adoptees, etc.

It's definitely very easy to have children with different surnames; just type it in. We don't have a field yet for former names. Some offices use hyphenated names sometimes. Another workaround might be to leave a dummy patient in that family with the former name.

I'm resurrecting this thread to see if we have had any movement on this? I can submit a feature request for a new surname field.

It would be helpful to have an additional name field called "Former surnames" or "Other surnames". This could hold maiden names for female patients, or previous last names for patients who have changed their name legally for other reasons. Currently we are dropping this information in the Addr/Ph Notes field as a "Maiden Name: Smith", but it's unstructured and non-ideal, leaving room for staff to be careless.