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.