Changing Your Preferences

As a user, you can change your user profile information. This includes the user name displayed in the header of the application, the email address to which notifications are sent, and the various numbers where you can be reached (phone, fax, pager, and mobile). Your password may also be changed from the User Profile dialog box: see Changing Your Password for more information.

Prerequisites: In order for user preferences to be saved, your organization must not utilize external authentication (i.e., LDAPLightweight Directory Access Protocol is an application protocol for accessing and maintaining distributed directory information services over an Internet Protocol (IP) network. LDAP is a type of external authentication that can be used by your organization to maintain your login and password.). Check with your administrator for profile information changes.

To change your preferences:

1. At the top right of the page, click the Logged in as menu and click Preferences. The User Profile dialog opens.
2. In the General tab, add or modify the details that appear for your user profile:
   • First/Middle/Last Name – appears in the header of the application
   • Email/Alternate – email addresses to which notifications are sent
   • Phone/Fax/Pager/Mobile – various numbers where you can be reached
   • DepartmentThe department or section within the laboratory that performs the tests. – department to which you belong (Not applicable to the Infection module.)
   • User Time Zone – determines the time zone of times and dates appearing in RL6 The time zone set in the user’s preferences is the default time zone used in the system. In other words, system-generated dates and times will be displayed in the user's time zone.
   • Time Zone Warning – determines whether a warning appears upon login that notifies the user of a mismatch between browser and user profile time zones.
   • Home Page – default home page, which appears as your first page after login. For all modules except Infection, the default is Icon Wall, but this be can any of the following (depending on permissions): Patient Center, File Info Center, Alert Notification Management, Task Management, Icon Wall, Report Center, File Interchange, Admin Center or Dashboards. For RL6:Infection , the default home page is the Info Center and there is a drop-down list in the user profile to change the homepage template.
   • Selected Module – default module that will be selected on pages that require a module selection. e.g., Search and administration pages. The “Remember my last selection” option ensures that selections made in the Module drop-down list for one page will persist on other pages.(Not applicable to the Infection module.)
   • Facility – default facility that will be selected when creating a new surveillance file, will filter the Point of Care locations list in the Inbox search criteria, and will customize reports so that results displayed are only for the selected facility. Users can select the facilities they want to see.(Infection module only.)
3. Click OK to save your changes and close the dialog.

For Infection:

For Risk, Feedback, Claims, RiskRegister, PeerReview, RootCause: