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title: How to enable the auditing of views of records containing personal health information
description: It is possible to enable the creation of an audit record any time a user views a record that contains personal health information. This can be used to comply with provincial health data privacy rules. Enabling this is done by…
url: "https://infomed.com/docs/how-to-enable-the-auditing-of-views-of-records-containing-personal-health-information/"
updated: "2026-05-08"
category: Data Entry
tags:
  - Configuration
  - Data Integrity
  - Privacy
  - Properties
---

# How to enable the auditing of views of records containing personal health information

It is possible to enable the creation of an audit record any time a user views a record that contains personal health information. This can be used to comply with provincial health data privacy rules.

Enabling this is done by configuring a property in the INFOMED.properties file on the server:

1. Navigate to the **<Promiso installation folder>/jsp/lib/** folder.
2. Locate the **INFOMED.properties** file and open it in a text editor such as notepad.
3. Ensure that the following property is present and set to true:

   **AuditPersonalHealthInfoReads=true**
4. Save the changes ensuring that the file is saved as INFOMED.properties and not INFOMED.properties.txt.
5. Restart Apache Tomcat in order for the changes to take effect.

The Utilities > Audit > Viewer page will then include a "Reads" option in the Type field and can be used to see who has viewed records with personal health information for a particular patient.

**Example**

The following screenshot shows an example of an audit search for audit records related to any times that a patient with the ID 7512721091 was viewed by users in 2026:

![](https://infomed.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/audit_patient_view_example.gif)

💡 **NOTE**

The auditing of reads can lead to a lot of additional audit records and an increased database size for large sites. The audit purge functionality on the Utilities > Audit > Configuration page can be used to automatically remove audit records older than a configured number of days.