Family Structure Management

Family structures can be complex. Your EHR shouldn’t be.

Office Practicum connects the social, financial, and genetic relationships that make up a child’s family. Link siblings, parents, stepparents, guardians, and guarantors while keeping family history, contact information, and financial responsibility connected to the right people.

WHY it MATTERS

Because “family” can mean different things.

Social family

Support divorced, blended, foster, adoptive, and other family structures while keeping custody, guardianship, and family relationships clear across households, so your team knows who is authorized to access information and make decisions.

Genetic family

Keep genetic parents and siblings linked for family medical history, regardless of who lives together or who is financially responsible for care. OP can apply shared genetic family history across sibling records.

Financial family

Connect family members by financial responsibility, manage guarantor relationships, transfer balances and credits among linked family members, and consolidate charges into one family statement.

HOW IT WORKS

Keep family information connected, without the extra work.

1
Update information once

Change shared contact information once and automatically update it across linked family members, saving staff from making the same change in multiple patient records.

2
Manage siblings together

Keep siblings connected even when they have different parents, guardians, households, or financial relationships, so staff can work with the family without treating every child as a separate record.

3
Control who can access what

Manage portal access and permissions around each child’s family relationships, helping staff navigate custody, guardianship, and other situations where access may differ from one person to another.

4
Enter insurance once

Copy insurance information from one child to another linked family member with the same guarantor instead of entering the same information again.

CAN YOUR EHR DO THIS?

Document family history once. Put it to work across the entire family.

When you care for siblings and families, the same information shouldn’t have to be entered again and again. OP lets you share family history across biological siblings and social history across members of the same household — saving time while keeping each patient’s chart connected to the bigger picture. See how it works!
FAMILY STRUCTURE MANAGEMENT: A GENERAL EHR VS OFFICE PRACTICUM

Built for the way families really work.

A general EHR
Office Practicum
Family relationships
Often relies on standard patient and guarantor relationships
Separately connects social, genetic, and financial families: so each relationship can reflect the child’s actual family structure
Family contacts
Extremely limited on how contacts and relationships can be represented
Supports unlimited social-family linkage, even when family members have different last names or addresses
Shared family information
Changes may need to be made separately in each patient record
Update shared social and contact information once and automatically apply it across linked family members
Genetic family history
Family history may need to be maintained separately for each child
Link genetic parents and siblings so shared family history can carry across related patient records
Insurance information
Re-enter the same insurance information for each child, even when siblings share coverage
Copy insurance information to linked family members who share the same guarantor
Family Billing
Sibling balances and statements are managed separately
Captures side concerns and context for more complete documentation
FAQS

Family relationships aren’t always straightforward. The answers can be.

What is family structure management in Office Practicum?
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Family structure management in Office Practicum lets practices define and connect a child’s social, genetic, and financial families separately. This helps accurately represent divorced and blended families, foster and adoptive families, siblings across households, different guarantors, and other family arrangements without forcing every relationship into a single household structure.

How are blended families and split custody handled?
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Does Office Practicum support foster and adoptive families?
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How does the front desk know who can access a child’s information?
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How does family billing work in Office Practicum?
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How does family structure management reduce duplicate data entry?
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Bring us your most complex family structure. We’ll show you how OP handles it.