Description of Request: the ability to default a Location Type in an Encounter Header. i.e. Geriatric providers’ only sees patients at a Nursing Home, instead of having to manually change the Location Type to 32 Nursing Home Facility there should be a default setting either in the EMR Manager or in the User Preferences to set a default Location Type for encounters.

Requested Steps to define spec:

1. EMR
2. Tools
3. User Preferences
4. Encounter
5. Default Location Type
6. Select from Drop-down list
7. Close

Expected Result:
Whenever an encounter is created for this practice, the default the Location Type would default to specified location set in User Preferences

Current Result:

currently client has to manually change Location Type to Nursing Home

Impact on Workflow:

High impact, slows down the process of entering encounter data due to the fact that user has to scroll down to find the Nursing Home Facility in Location Type