To remove all patient identifiable data for patients who are currently over 24 and have not been seen for 10 years you do as follows:

• Go into Lists and then Practice details.
• Then click on “Remove very old patients” button in the top right corner.
• Then click on “View/Print List” to see a list of the specific patients.
• Print off that list if you want to use it to help remove all paper records for these patients.
• Click on “Clear patients….” button.

The patient will remain in the system with only their initials and date of birth.

It is best to do this on the main Opticabase computer as it can take 10 minutes on a secondary computer and only 3 on the main computer.