Add a Health Concern
- Open NextGen® Enterprise EHR.
- From the navigation bar, select Care Plan.
The Care Plan template appears.
- Expand the Add/Edit Health Concerns panel.
- From the Select Category grid, select a category.
The Select Concern grid appears, and all patient records for the category appear in the grid.
- To view all the previous records, select Show all dates. If you selected Encounter Diagnosis, Social History, or Vital Signs category, you can view all the records or filter them by a date range.
- From the Select Concern grid, select a record.
The data from the record appears in corresponding fields on the right.
If a health concern is not listed in any of the categories, use the Other category to add the health concern.
- To modify clinical or verification statuses, select in the corresponding fields and then select a status. The default clinical and verification statuses are Active and Confirmed respectively.
Note: If you select the Entered-in-error verification status, the associated goals, interventions, and outcomes will be removed.
- To update the identified date, select in the corresponding field and then select a date. The default date is today's date.
- To enter additional information, select Comments.
- To enter a primary concern for the current concern, select the primary concern in the Secondary to field.
- Select Add.
The added health concern appears in the bottom-right grid.