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description: Life Sciences Cloud fields extend the standard Account object to represent information about patients and providers.
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# Fields on Account

Life Sciences Cloud fields extend the standard Account object to represent information about patients and providers.

## Fields

### Effective Date

- **Type**: dateTime
- **Properties**: Create, Filter, Nillable, Sort, Update
- **Description**: The date from when the person account is active.

### End Date

- **Type**: dateTime
- **Properties**: Create, Filter, Nillable, Sort, Update
- **Description**: The date from when the person account is no longer active.

### Source System ID

- **Type**: string
- **Properties**: Create, Filter, Group, idLookup, Nillable, Sort, Update
- **Description**: The identifier of the record in its source system. This field can’t be encrypted.