New User Account

Step 1: Create Provider Profile

  1. From Oscar's main schedule, click Administration
  2. Under the User Management heading, click ‘Search / Edit / Delete Provider Records’
  3. Click the ‘Search’ button without typing any name in the box, to get the full list of current providers
  4. Click on the ‘ID’ heading to put the ID numbers in numerical order
  5. Create and record a new provider number that is higher than the last number in the provider list
  6. Click ‘Add Provider Record'
  7. Enter the new provider number created in step 5 into the Provider No. field
  8. Enter the remaining information for this provider profile
  9. Click ‘Add Provider Record’

Step 2: Assign Provider Login

  1. From Oscar's main schedule, click Administration
  2. Under the User Management heading, click ‘Add Login Record’
  3. Enter a new username and temporary password into the Username and Password fields
  4. Click on the ‘Provider No.’ drop down and select a User Profile to link with this Login
  5. Enter an Expiry Date
  6. Enter a 4 digit PIN
  7. Select 'Force Password reset'. This will ensure that the provider will change the password when they login for the first time.
  8. Click ‘Add Record’

Step 3: Define Provider Roles

  1. From Oscar's main schedule, click Administration
  2. Under the User Management heading, 'Assign Role to Provider'
  3. Search for the provider you wish to modify using the search field in the upper right corner
  4. Choose a role from the drop down menu and click one of the three available actions: "Add", "Update", or "Delete"
  5. Each new role will appear as a new row.  Providers with multiple roles will have multiple rows in the chart.

Note: 1 Provider can have multiple roles.

Common roles used are:

  • doctor : access to every part of OSCAR except the administrative view
  • admin : access only to the administration functions (unless admin role is secondary to another role)