I was signed out and I do not know why
Usually an administrator changed what this machine does. The sign-in screen tells you which, and nothing you had recorded is lost.
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If you are suddenly looking at the sign-in screen, read the line above the form. It says what happened.
"The administrator changed what this machine does"
Someone changed what this machine is for — added Laboratory to it, or removed Finance from it.
That change alters which records the machine may hold, so it closes and reopens the hospital's database under the new set, which ends the session. There is no way to change what a machine carries without doing that.
It is not a crash. Sign back in and carry on; the machine now shows a different set of modules.
To a clerk halfway through a registration, a screen that simply becomes the sign-in screen reads as a crash. The notice exists because the honest answer — an administrator changed something — was previously on nobody's screen.
"The machine was locked because nobody used it"
The idle lock. Enter your PIN and you are back where you were — the session was never closed. See Signing in.
Nothing on the screen, just the form
Then the application restarted — the machine lost power, or Windows restarted it.
Anything you had saved is safe. It was written to this machine as you saved it, before anything else happened.
Anything you had typed but not saved is gone, as it would be in any program. A half-finished registration is the usual casualty, which is what Drafts is for — see Registering a patient.
What is never lost
Saved work does not depend on the network, the cloud, or the machine staying on. It is written down on the machine in the same breath as the work itself, and it is still there after a power cut.