When a patient is created using the WMDA Search & Match web service, the user that created it is automatically assigned to that patient. It will therefore show up in the list of "my patients" for that user. In some instances you may want to assign this patient to another user. Some reasons for which you may want to do this are: 

• A patient was automatically transferred from the legacy system to the new and does not have a user assigned or has the wrong patient assigned
• The user that created the patient is on leave and somebody else at the same organisation may want to have this patient appear in their "my patients" list
• A patient was created by your registry's software using the API and no user was assigned by your software. 

The following steps let you assign a patient to yourself no matter whether it is not assigned to any person or to another person: