Send OP Surveys to the Portal

Here you can find a step by step guide to send an OP Survey to a patient or parent, and how it returns to OP after it is completed.

Note: The patient must have an active Intelichart Patient Portal account

Here is an example of an OP Survey that a practice has created. It is called "My Very Special OP Survey" and has no privacy restrictions (EFR = N):

Highlight the survey and click the Edit button. This example is a two-question survey: 

To test the survey and to make sure that all the questions have connected answers, click the Test button:

Once you have established that this survey is complete and ready for use, assign it to a patient. This involves calling up the Order Worksheet for a patient. In this case, Beatrice Testpatient:

  1. Click the Survey tab.
  2. Choose My Very Special OP Survey in the Survey Name dropdown.
  3. Set the Department dropdown to Patient:
  4. Click the Create button (not the Do Now button, which will launch the survey on the user's workstation.)

Confirm the popup message by clicking the OK button:


Now the survey is sent to the patient's portal account. The Task has a Not Started status until the patient begins the survey (at which point the status will change to In Progress.)

The patient or parent receives a notification in their portal account that there is a new survey for them to complete:

The patient or parent clicks on the message to open it, then expands it to see more details:The patient or parent should make a note of the PIN code that is listed, then should click the Patient Survey link.

The patient/parent enters the PIN code from the previous step:   

 Then the patient or parent clicks the Verify button to move into the survey itself.  The patient or parent completes the survey as prescribed:

After the patient clicks the Submit button, the completed survey returns to OP:

The original Task sent to the Patient department is now Completed: