Convert Leads to Patients

Your company can use existing Salesforce Lead records to create the Patient records that are used in Health Cloud.

A lead record represents a person who isn't yet a patient in Health Cloud, but has shown interest by making an inquiry or requesting an appointment. When you convert a lead record to a patient, the converted patient record is always a person account. You can turn existing Salesforce leads into patients using Health Cloud’s custom fields on the Lead object. These additional fields capture important patient information, like a person’s medical record number and the name of the patient’s care coordinator. If you have to enter a person, and you’re not sure if they’re a patient or not, enter them as a lead. You can later qualify the lead as a patient and convert them into a person account.

Install the HealthCloudExtensions unmanaged package to install the Health Cloud conversion process or create your own conversion process. Either way, make sure to add the Convert to Patient button to the Leads list view so that care coordinators can convert lead records to patient records.

The Convert To Patient process that's installed with the HealthCloudExtensions unmanaged package uses the Source System ID and Medical Record Number fields for duplicate checking. If the lead being converted has a Source System ID or Medical Record Number that matches an existing account, the lead is flagged as a duplicate and not converted.

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