New fields to accommodate name changes
October 14, 2012
Sometimes people change their names. For example, when a woman marries, she might take the last name of her husband. In the process, she might also change her middle name to be her former middle name. There's a slight issue in that if a provider has built up a practice with her former last name, she might want keep the power of that personal brand by letting people know her previous name.
Up until recently, we didn't have a way of allowing users to indicate their former names. One provider creatively indicated that by adding "formerly Penn" as a last name. Given how common this situation can be, we made changes this week so that providers can specify their former name. For now, the name will show up in parentheses, but we might change the display as time goes on.