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NextGen® Adaptive Content Engine Help Enterprise 8.3.1

Documenting Dental Patient Encounters

You can use the Home Page and Histories templates in NextGen Adaptive Content Engine to document the encounter details of a dental patient. The Dental User Guide for NextGen® Adaptive Content Engine is intended for dental professionals, such as providers, nurses, and front office staff, responsible for documenting and processing patient information. The Dental User Guide for NextGen® Adaptive Content Engine also provides information on how to document pediatric dental care. You can document the dental office and virtual visit workflows on the Home Page and Histories templates. Before documenting a standard visit, you must configure settings to quickly access the templates. The common configurations associated with the templates include the links in the navigation bar, reasons for visit, medications, allergies, social history and so on. NextGen® Adaptive Content Engine, NextGen® EDR, and NextGen® Enterprise PM applications are essential and interdependent in the dental workflow. Before

NextGen® Adaptive Content Engine Help Enterprise 8.3.1

Dental Home Page

You can review and document the summary of a patient on the Home Page template. The Home Page template enables you to document patient's problems, histories, allergies, medications, vital signs, orders, and so on. Documenting Dental Treatment Plans You can view the dental treatment plan history for the patient and add additional comments or treatment information to it. Parent topic: Dental

NextGen® Adaptive Content Engine Help Enterprise 8.3.1

Histories Template

The Histories template enables you to document a patient's social history, problem list, medical or surgical history, diagnostic study history, and family history. The panels available in the Histories template are as follows: Table 1. Section Description Problem List You can view, add, modify and retrieve patient's clinical problems and chronic conditions. Medical/Surgical/Interim You can document the patient's problem list and social, medical or surgical, diagnostic study, and family histories. Diagnostics Studies You can document the patient's diagnostic tests and its associated results. Family You can document the family history of the patient. Social You can document the social history of an adult or a pediatric patient. The categories in the social history includes tobacco/vaping use, alcohol/caffeine, lifestyle, occupation and so on. For more information, go to NextGen Healthcare Success Community, and download the latest Getting Started User Guide for NextGen® Adaptive Content

NextGen® Adaptive Content Engine Help Enterprise 8.3.1

Documenting Dental Treatment Plans

You can view the dental treatment plan history for the patient and add additional comments or treatment information to it. When you add or update the dental treatment plan in NextGen® EDR, the plan automatically reflects in the Dental Treatment Plan panel on the Home Page - Dental template in the NextGen® Adaptive Content Engine. The treatment plan information appears in the Treatment Plan History grid. You can add additional details to the grid present in the Dental Treatment Plan. The treatment information that you entered for the current encounter appears in the Patient Plan document. You can print the patient plan document by using the Patient Plan button. Dental Treatment Plan Parent topic: Dental Home Page

NextGen® Adaptive Content Engine Help Enterprise 8.3.1

Reviewing Patient's History

You can view the history of the patient's medical, surgical, interim, family, and social details in the History panel. The history details in the grid are updated automatically when you add any detail in the Histories template. For more information about the Histories template, go to NextGen Healthcare Success Community, and download the latest Getting Started Guide for NextGen® Adaptive Content Engine. Parent topic: Pre Visit Planning

NextGen® Adaptive Content Engine Help Enterprise 8.3.1

Getting Started

NextGen® Adaptive Content Engine templates enable you to document patient encounters on the visit types associated with the available specialties. You can also configure new links, navigation bar, reasons for visit, set up default templates, preferences, and so on. Patient Encounter Documentation You can use NextGen® Adaptive Content Engine templates to document patient encounters on the visit types associated with the specialties available. Managing Basic Configuration Before you begin, you can configure some optional settings such as template preferences, template links, and so on. Managing Basic User Interface Functionality Accessing and Setting up Templates from Navigation Bar You can access and configure various templates in the Navigation bar. General Office and Virtual Visit Workflow You can find general and virtual visit workflows in the Intake and Histories template.

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Documenting Dental Patient Encounters

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Documenting Dental Patient Encounters

Dental Home Page

Histories Template

Documenting Dental Treatment Plans

Reviewing Patient's History

Getting Started