Significant Events Report

The Significant Events report provides an audit trail for specific user activity that has occurred within the NextGen Enterprise applications. These are known as significant events. When a significant event occurs, a message is recorded in each patient's chart. The message includes the name of the user that performed the event, the date/time the event occurred, and both pre-modification and post-modification information.

Some significant events are System Level and are recorded for all practices in all enterprises. Other events are Enterprise Level and are recorded for all practices within the same enterprise. Other events are Practice Level and are recorded for the practice(s) in which they have been enabled.

Significant Events can be enabled or disabled from the following applications:

• NextGen® Enterprise PM
• System Administrator

All recorded system-level, enterprise-level and practice-level significant event messages are available for review on the Significant Events report. In addition, enterprise-level and practice-level messages can be viewed from the Patient Chart > Clinical History/Notes > History folder in NextGen® Enterprise PM.

When generating the Significant Events report, it is recommended that the report be filtered for specific Significant Event Messages, Creators (users), and Date Ranges. Running the report with no filters may be database intensive due to the large number of significant events that are recorded in the system over time.

The Significant Events report cannot include multiple practices, and therefore must be run separately from within each practice.

To access the report in NextGen® Enterprise PM, select the Reports menu and select General and then select Significant Events.