User Roles

There are 5 user roles in the Midwife-EMR application. In other words, when you log into the system as a staff member you can be in one of five roles. A user can only be a member of one role.

Administrator

The administrator role is used to configure the system. At the current time that mostly consists of setting up user accounts and assigning users to one of the 5 roles (listed on this page).

After the initial setup, the administrator account is generally not needed unless it is to add or configure user accounts, etc.

The administrator account has no access to patient or medical information.

Finally, there is no requirement that all 5 roles be used. The application is entirely usable with only the administrator (for setup) and supervisor (for all patient care) roles.

Supervisor

The supervisor role is the role of the primary healthcare provider and users in this role have full rights to patient care in the system.

Attending

The attending role is an optional role that is used for patient care but under the supervision of a user in the supervisor role. Once logged in, the user in the attending role cannot do anything until the user has selected their supervisor from a drop-down list of supervisors in the system. From that point on, all changes made to patient records will be recorded as made by that user with the specified supervisor.

Some sites may choose to use the attending role for student midwives while others would have not need of this role at all.

Clerk

The clerk role is allowed access to patient information but is limited in the amount of patient information that can be viewed and modified. For example, the clerk cannot see lab test results or information about the prenatal questionnaire or pregnancy history. The clerk role can see general information about the patient such as name, address, education, etc. In addition, the clerk can create a prenatal exam record and add basic health information such as weight and blood pressure.

Guard

The guard role is for users whose responsibility includes facilitating patient check-in and check-out. Practically this role is only reasonable to use in sites serving a large number of patients daily and sites that have specific requirements to carefully track check-in and check-out times (for example, government requirements, etc.).