In the NextGen® Adaptive Content Engine templates, the following types of History of Present Illness (HPI) templates are used to document a patient's reason for visiting the office:
- Static HPI - displays hard-coded content that is not easily customizable; a single template is available for each complaint with options for selecting pre-determined details: the final concatenation is available when you close the template
- Dynamic HPI - enables you to add, edit, update, and delete dynamic content for the HPI and concatenates the content on the template as items are selected or edited. NextGen® Adaptive Content Engine is packaged with pre-configured dynamic HPI templates for the Gastroenterology, Physical Therapy, Orthopedics, Urology, and Pediatrics Well Child. The specific details about these existing HPI elements are provided in the Specialty Specific Dynamic HPI Elements section of this user guide.
The dynamic HPI templates help you create comprehensive documentation of the patient's reason for being in the doctor's office. The templates can be used in any specialty. The dynamic views of the template are based on the data and not specialty. The two dynamic views of the template are as follows:
- Laterality view - enables documentation of body parts on one side of the body or the other in two separate grids
- Non-laterality view - enables documentation of body parts in a single grid
Both views utilize the same template shell. The selected data appears in the Reason for Visit panel and in any associated documents. These views are explained in detail in the Dynamic HPI Views Explained section of this guide.
You can customize the dynamic HPI templates by using the configuration options available on the following templates:
- Data Sets Setup
- Dynamic HPI Config
- Dynamic HPI Contradictions Config
- Dynamic HPI Sentence Config
- Framework Content
- Manage Custom Links
