Maternity Hospital Admission Process

This page outlines the standard Fydo workflow for:

  • Admitting maternity patients
  • Registering newborns
  • Entering Hospital in the Home (HITH) details where applicable

This ensures patient records, episodes, and downstream integrations (billing, reporting, data extracts) are accurate.

Maternity Patient Admission

  1. Navigate to Appointment → Right-Click Menu → Make an Appointment
  2. Select the appropriate Patient Category & Accom Type

  1. Once the mother needs to be Admitted, this can be done in the usual matter:

  • Care type = Acute
  • Other details same as overnight Acute
  • 💡HITH Start Date – if patient is going to receive Hospital In The Home care during the episode, HITH start date can be entered after patient is admitted.

4. Allocate a Bed to the mother – Appointment → Right-Click Menu → Inpatient → Bed History

Registering Newborns

Newborns must be registered as separate patient records and linked to the mother.

Step 1: Create Newborn Patient Record and admission

  1. From the mother’s appointment, Right Click > add Newborn (or create a new patient manually)

  1. Enter newborn details:

  • Temporary name (e.g. Baby of Jane Smith which can be updated later once the legal name is confirmed)
  • Date and time of birth
  • Gender
  • Most of the details will be inherited from Mother, for example address, GP, Fund etc.
  • NOK/Emergency Contact relationship must be reviewed and updated as FYDO blank fills the relationship after copying Mother’s details

  1. After the newborn patient details are saved, FYDO will prompt the newborn admission screen. Enter all newborn admission details.

📝Currently only QLD facilities will have below highlighted fields pre-populated for newborn admissions; other state will need to manually assign the relevant values.

Step 2: Link Newborn to Mother

  1. This will be linked automatically if baby is registered using the Add Newborn option

From Baby’s record, Mother name is listed and hyperlink to mother’s patient details page:

From Mother’s record, child/ren’s details are also listed:

Discharge Mother and Newborns

Always Discharge from the Mothers Episode

  1. Appointments Screen → select Mothers episode →Right-Click Menu → Discharge

📝 If HITH start date is entered on admission screen, HITH end date will auto default to Discharge date, can be updated if needed

  1. FYDO will prompt a screen to also discharge the baby