You can capture and track a patient’s social determinants of health to better understand the non-medical factors affecting their care and outcomes.
 
  - Open NextGen® Enterprise EHR.
 
  - On the Intake template, select any specialty and visit type.
 
  - To open the Social Determinants of Health template, do one of the following:
   
    
     - On the Histories template, expand the Social panel, and select Social Determinants of Health.
 
     - In the History Summary panel on the Intake template, select Social, and select Social Determinants of Health.
 
    
     
  - Enter the patient's response to each question.
   
    Note: To configure the questions and their answer options, go to 
NextGen Healthcare Success Community, and download the 
Coded Results Mapping User Guide for NextGen® Adaptive Content Engine.
    
  
     
  - If the patient does not want to answer the questions in any of the sections, select the corresponding Declines to specify checkbox.
 
  - Select Save to Grid or OK.
   
    Note: The applicable sections and their calculated score appear in the Screening Tool grid.
    
 
     
  - Optional: If the patient changes a response to a specific question, simply document the updated response and select the Save to Grid or OK.
   
    The Screening Tool grid is updated for that section.