The Alerts Section provides information on any condition about which a care provider should be aware. Examples of alerts could include exposure to contagious disease, the existence of an advance directive, a social situation or a fear/phobia. Other types of alerts could include Organ Donor, or a Transplant Recipient, Special needs, Patient Preferences or MRSA positive. This section supports both free text alert descriptions as well as discrete data encoded using a standards based nomenclature.