Manage Health Concerns

NextGen® Adaptive Content Engine Help Enterprise 8.3.1

Patient Care Plans

You can create a care plan to address patients' health concerns and monitor their progress toward resolving specific concerns. On the Care Plan template, you can do the following: Define and maintain a care plan for a patient that addresses health concerns, goals, interventions, and outcomes Record the functional and cognitive status of the patient Define, track, and review interventions by multiple providers and agencies Track the overall progress of the patient toward achieving defined goals The Care Plan template also enables you to meet the 2015 edition certification criterion, which requires a recording, changing, accessing, creating, and receiving care plan information. You can also create a Care Plan document from the Care Plan template and save the document as part of the encounter history. For more information on care plans, go to NextGen Healthcare Success Community, and download the Care Plan User Guide for NextGen® Adaptive Content Engine. Care Plan Components Create a Care

NextGen® Adaptive Content Engine Help Enterprise 8.3.1

Manage Goals, Interventions, and Outcomes

Having identified a health concern, you can create goals that the patient can work toward to address the health concerns and interventions that may be necessary to help the patient achieve the goal. Once the goals and interventions are specified and the patient is working toward the goals, you can record the patients progress and the outcome of the interventions. Add a Patient Goal to Address a Health Concern Create an Intervention to Achieve a Goal Record an Outcome for an Intervention Parent topic: Care Plan

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Patient Care Team Members

You can use the Patient Care Team Members panel to view and manage a list of providers, agencies, organizations, care takers, and other individuals involved in the ongoing care of the patient. You can create and update patient care team details, either from the Patient Care Team Members panel of the Care Plan template or from the Care Team Members template. From the Patient Care Team Members panel, you can: Create and update patient care team. Add, update, and remove members and their details from the patient care team. Import practice care team to patient care team as one of the member. For more information on patient care team and their functionalities, go to NextGen Healthcare Success Community, and download the Care Team User Guide for NextGen Adaptive Content Engine. Parent topic: Care Plan

NextGen® Adaptive Content Engine Help Enterprise 8.3.1

Care Plan

You can use the Care Plan templates to address patients' health concerns and monitor their progress toward resolving specific concerns. Patient Care Plans You can create a care plan to address patients' health concerns and monitor their progress toward resolving specific concerns. Manage Health Concerns Manage Goals, Interventions, and Outcomes Patient Care Team Members Document Functional and Cognitive Assessments You can document a patient's functional and cognitive assessments in the Functional and Cognitive Assessment Status panel. Review a Patient's Care Plan History View At Glance Panel

NextGen® Adaptive Content Engine Help Enterprise 8.3.1

Add a Health Concern Using the Other Category

Open NextGen® Enterprise EHR. Expand the Add/Edit Health Concerns panel. From the Select Category grid, select Other. Manually enter the health concern or use common phrases. Select a category. 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. Parent topic: Manage Health Concerns

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Care Plan Components

You can create a care plan to address a patient's health concerns and to monitor their progress toward resolving the identified concerns on the Care Plan template. The care plan consists of following components: Field Description Type The type of care plan Status The status of the care plan Intent The intent of the care plan Panel Description Add/Edit Health Concerns Consolidates categorized health concerns from several sources within the application Health concern categories include but are not limited to allergy, vital signs, social history, smoking and tobacco use. Patient Care Team Members Displays information about a patient's care team and enables providers to update the care team by adding modifying members Functional and Cognitive Assessment Status Enables providers to record functional and cognitive assessments for patients Goals, Interventions, and Outcomes Enables providers to define goals, identify interventions, and track outcomes for identified patient health concerns Car

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Manage Health Concerns

Patient Care Plans

Manage Goals, Interventions, and Outcomes

Patient Care Team Members

Care Plan

Add a Health Concern Using the Other Category

Care Plan Components