
<p><strong>CareLite emergency registration is built for a casualty desk that often has no name, no relative and no time. A patient can be registered as unknown, treated and billed immediately, and identified later without losing the UHID or any charge already raised. The case then converts cleanly to OPD or IPD on the same record.</strong></p>

<h2>Registering an unknown patient</h2>
<p>An emergency registration needs almost nothing to proceed. Marking the patient unknown issues a UHID and an emergency number straight away so billing, investigations and admission can all proceed against a real record rather than a scrap of paper to be reconciled later.</p>

<h2>Identifying them afterwards</h2>
<p>When a relative arrives or the patient can speak, the name and mobile are updated from the emergency register. The UHID does not change, and every bill, receipt and admission raised in the meantime stays attached to the same person. The change is recorded in the audit trail with the earlier value, so the transition from unknown to named is itself traceable.</p>

<h2>Converting to OPD or IPD</h2>
<p>An emergency case that ends in admission converts directly: the patient, department, doctor, patient type and company carry over, the visit is marked converted, and the admission records which emergency case it came from. A case treated and released simply closes with its bill.</p>

<h2>Why this matters for a small hospital</h2>
<p>Emergency is where most hospitals lose money and traceability at once, because the desk is improvising under pressure. If the software insists on a complete patient record before it will issue a number, staff work around it — on paper, in a notebook, in their heads — and the charges surface days later, unbillable. Letting the record start incomplete and complete itself later is what keeps emergency revenue on the books.</p>
