Activate Care Guidelines Template

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Setting Up Care Guidelines for Use

You can set up the care guidelines for a patient and document the details on the Care Guidelines template. In NextGen® Adaptive Content Engine, the Care Guidelines template is used to handle Health Maintenance and Disease Management functions, including guideline testing and screening, and recommended care. You can open the Care Guidelines template using the Care Guidelines link, in the top navigation tabs of all the main tabbed templates for every specialty. CAUTION: Before using the Care Guidelines template in a clinical setting with patients, content on the template should be carefully reviewed by the individuals who are responsible for maintaining the system. You can update as necessary to meet the needs of the practice. Care Guidelines link is always available on the Care Guidelines template. But, when the items are due, it is indicated by a numeric digit beside the link. Home Page On the Care Guidelines template, guidelines listed in the left side pane under Patient's guidelines

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Care Guidelines Paged View

You can record the activities for a disease, condition, and health maintenance during a patient encounter on the Care Guidelines Paged View template. The Care Guidelines panel on the Care Guidelines Paged View template has additional functionalities that are not available on the Care Guidelines grid view template. The activities performed during a patient enounter include: Activate a new care guideline Update a current active care guidelines Review, place orders, and update the status of guideline items Review and manage recent orders Review immunizations and track metrics Record immunization orders Review additional information that you may find helpful Decline or exclude a guideline permanently Decline or exclude a guideline for an encounter Reactivate or update a guideline that is declined or excluded in a previous encounter without having to reapply the entire guideline Modify individual active guideline items at the patient level. The following are the additional functionalities t

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Care Guidelines Grid View

You can follow a disease or condition and health maintenance during a patient encounter on the Care Guidelines grid view template. The Care Guidelines grid view template displays only active guideline items that are due in a data grid in the Care Guidelines panel. Workflow on the Care Guidelines grid view template starts in the Care Guidelines panel. To use the care guidelines system with a patient, you have to activate a guideline. Then you can perform the tasks of reviewing and updating the status of individual guideline items in the Care Guidelines panel. Care Guidelines The activities include: Activate new or update current active care guidelines for the patient Document and update risk indicators for health maintenance Review, place orders, and update the status of guideline items Review and update diagnostic studies performed prior or elsewhere The Care Guidelines grid view template also provides access to additional information that providers may find helpful, such as screening

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Removing a Care Guideline or Individual Guideline Item

You can remove a care guideline for a patient in the Remove/Restore Guidelines panel. You can use the Remove/Restore Guidelines panel on the Activate Care Guideline template to remove individual guideline items or an entire care guideline by disease condition. You can also restore guidelines that are removed. You can do the following: Remove a guideline by condition is only available for the most current encounter for the patient. Remove an individual guideline item that is not followed while the remaining items for the guideline are followed for the patient. Remove a guideline in the current encounter, if you add a guideline by mistake or it no longer applies to the patient. If the guideline was added in a past encounter, historical documentation is saved, but cannot see the guideline in future encounters. Remove an Entire Guideline by Condition You can remove an entire care guideline by condition for a patient in the Remove/Restore Guidelines panel. Remove an Individual Guideline Ite

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Panels on the Activate Care Guidelines Template

Panel Description Active Guidelines Activate or re-apply guidelines View clinical references for individual guidelines Review a patient’s clinical guideline history Remove/Restore Guidelines Remove a guideline Restore a guideline Problem List Review diagnoses in the patient’s problem list. Add diagnoses in the patient’s problem list to their ICD billing list. Parent topic: Activate Care Guidelines Template

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Activating a Care Guideline

You can activate a care guideline for a patient on the Activate Care Guidelines template. You must activate a patient's care guideline for health maintenance or a disease condition before you use the care guidelines for the patient. You can activate guidelines in the Active Guidelines panel on the Activate Care Guidelines template. An application message appears if you want to re-apply an already activated guideline. You can re-apply a guideline if certain items within the guideline are not being followed and you need to add them now. Note: When you re-apply a guideline, the application checks through all of the guideline items that are already active, and applies those items in the set that are missing. If there is a test found in more than one guideline activated for the patient, only one test will be maintained. The application calculates the Due Date for that test based on the settings found for the earliest start age, the latest stop age, and the shortest interval of the activated

Activate Care Guidelines Template

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Setting Up Care Guidelines for Use

Care Guidelines Paged View

Care Guidelines Grid View

Removing a Care Guideline or Individual Guideline Item

Panels on the Activate Care Guidelines Template

Activating a Care Guideline

Setting Up Care Guidelines for Use

Care Guidelines Paged View

Care Guidelines Grid View

Removing a Care Guideline or Individual Guideline Item

Panels on the Activate Care Guidelines Template

Activating a Care Guideline