Activating a Care Guideline

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Panels on the Activate Care Guidelines Template

Panel Description Active Guidelines Activate or re-apply guidelines View clinical references for individual guidelines Review a patient’s clinical guideline history Remove/Restore Guidelines Remove a guideline Restore a guideline Problem List Review diagnoses in the patient’s problem list. Add diagnoses in the patient’s problem list to their ICD billing list. Parent topic: Activate Care Guidelines Template

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Reviewing Care Guidelines History

You can review the history of care guidelines tests on the Care Guidelines History template. A history of care guideline tests or exams can be reviewed on the Care Guidelines History template. You can see all guideline items that are completed and no longer due. For example, the peds guideline was applied to a 14 year old patient. Once the patient reaches adulthood, and all the well visits and other tests in the guideline are completed and no longer due, the peds guideline do not appear in the Care Guidelines template. Instead, these completed guideline items are seen on the Care Guidelines History template. Care Guidelines History The Care Guidelines History template can be opened from the: Care Guidelines panel on the Care Guidelines template. Active Guidelines panel on the Activate Care Guidelines template. This template opens from the Care Guidelines panel on the Care Guidelines template. Note: For a previous or custom encounter, the Save & Close and Edit buttons on the Care Guidel

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Removing a Care Guideline or Individual Guideline Item

You can remove a care guideline for a patient in the Remove/Restore Guidelines panel. You can use the Remove/Restore Guidelines panel on the Activate Care Guideline template to remove individual guideline items or an entire care guideline by disease condition. You can also restore guidelines that are removed. You can do the following: Remove a guideline by condition is only available for the most current encounter for the patient. Remove an individual guideline item that is not followed while the remaining items for the guideline are followed for the patient. Remove a guideline in the current encounter, if you add a guideline by mistake or it no longer applies to the patient. If the guideline was added in a past encounter, historical documentation is saved, but cannot see the guideline in future encounters. Remove an Entire Guideline by Condition You can remove an entire care guideline by condition for a patient in the Remove/Restore Guidelines panel. Remove an Individual Guideline Ite

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Restore a Guideline Item

You can restore a care guideline item for a patient using the Remove/Restore Guidelines panel. You can restore a care guideline or guideline item removed previously, so that it can be followed for a patient. Open NextGen® Enterprise EHR. Select the Care Guidelines link on any of the main template. The Care Guidelines template opens. Select Add/Update in the Care Guidelines panel. The Activate Care Guidelines template opens. In the Activate Guidelines panel, select the Conditionfrom the list. Select Add to activate it again. This re-applies the guideline. Select Save & Close. Note: When you re-apply a guideline, the application goes through all of the existing items that are active, and only re-applies the one that is missing from the set for the condition. Parent topic: Activate Care Guidelines Template

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Activate Care Guidelines Template

You can activate a care guideline for a patient in the Activate Care Guideline template. The tasks that are done occasionally are performed on the Activate Care Guidelines template, such as: Activating a care guideline Removing a care guideline or guideline item Re-applying a removed clinical guideline or guideline item Viewing clinical references for guideline items Adding a diagnosis from the patient’s problem list to the patient's ICD billing list Reviewing care guideline history for the patient Note: You must activate a care guideline initially, usually only once. The guideline must be activated before it can be followed for a patient. Activate Care Guidelines Panels on the Activate Care Guidelines Template You can use the panels on the template to activate the care guideline for a patient. Activating a Care Guideline You can activate a care guideline for a patient on the Activate Care Guidelines template. Removing a Care Guideline or Individual Guideline Item You can remove a care

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Filter Selected Guidelines in the Active Guidelines Grid

You can filter selected active care guidelines of a patient in the Active Guidelines panel. There are several ways to filter and display only selected guidelines in the Active Guidelines panel grid. Open NextGen® Enterprise EHR. Select the Care Guidelines link on any of the main template.The Care Guidelines template opens. Select Add/Update in the Care Guidelines panel.The Activate Care Guidelines template opens. In the Active Guidelines panel, to display only items due within a specific time period, select the Due within checkbox and then select the number of days, weeks, or months from the Show only items due within window. Activate Guidelines To display items for a selected guideline: Select the Display only selected guideline checkbox. Select the Condition from the list. Note: The grid do not display any items of a selected guideline that has not been activated for the patient. You can see a list of guidelines active for the patient in the Remove/Restore Guidelines panel. Parent to

Activating a Care Guideline

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Panels on the Activate Care Guidelines Template

Reviewing Care Guidelines History

Removing a Care Guideline or Individual Guideline Item

Restore a Guideline Item

Activate Care Guidelines Template

Filter Selected Guidelines in the Active Guidelines Grid

Activating a Care Guideline

Panels on the Activate Care Guidelines Template

Reviewing Care Guidelines History

Removing a Care Guideline or Individual Guideline Item

Restore a Guideline Item

Activate Care Guidelines Template

Filter Selected Guidelines in the Active Guidelines Grid