Automatically Update and Modifying a Guideline

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Modify Existing Guidelines

You can modify a guideline for a patient on the Care Guideline Setup template. Before you begin You must select the Auto-Apply checkbox to make the Birth sex, Start age, Stop age, and Diagnosis group fields available. Open NextGen® Enterprise EHR. From File, select System \ Practice Template. The Select Template window opens. On the Practice tab, select the All option. Select Care Guideline Setup, and then select OK. The Care Guideline Setup practice template opens. Expand the Define Guideline Reasons & Auto Application panel and select the guideline from the data grid. Details listed in the grid for the guideline fill in the fields. These values can be modified. Note: When you update a guideline, the current Guideline Condition/Reason does not change. Modify the birth sex, start age, stop age, and diagnosis group as necessary. Note: You can select the Auto Update checkbox on the Care Guidelines Setup template to update the guidelines automatically with new guideline information and ap

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Managing Groups and Options

To meet the new the HTI-1 requirements the guidelines must be initiated based on the reason types such as allergy or intolerance, implantable device, laboratory results, medication, procedure, SNOMED problem, and vital signs. To automatically apply the care guideline, you must define a care guideline for the condition or disease by documenting the details using the links provided for reason types. The Auto Update feature eliminates the need to manually re-apply a guideline to patients whenever a change or update is made to the guideline condition or reason and its configuration details. The Auto Update check box is optional. When this check box is selected, guidelines are automatically updated with new guideline information, such as new tests added to the guideline, and applied to eligible patients. The Enable Document Types to satisfy guidelines checkbox enables the Document Types / Codifications section in the Interventions/Test Equivalent Codes/Descriptions panel. This allows you to

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Update Orderable Guideline Test Items

You can update an orderable test item of a patient using the Intervention/Orders Setup on the Care Guideline Setup template. Open NextGen® Enterprise EHR. From File, select System \ Practice Template. The Select Template window opens. On the Practice tab, select the All option. Select Care Guideline Setup, and then select OK. The Care Guideline Setup practice template opens. Expand the Intervention/Orders Setup panel and then select the guideline or test item from the Orderable Tests Setup data grid. Details for the guideline or test item appear in the fields above the grid. These values can be modified. Note: If you select a different value for Reason type, all fields are reset. In Condition/Reason, select any from the list. In Guideline /Test type, select the order types from the list. In Guideline/Test name (required), enter the name. You can use text for instructions, health screening, and referrals. The Guideline/Test code value automatically fills when the guideline or test name

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Create Guidelines

You can create a guideline for a patient using the Define Guidelines Reasons & Auto Application on the Care Guideline Setup template. Before you begin You must select the Auto-Apply checkbox to make the Gender, Start age, Stop age, and Diagnosis group fields available. Otherwise, you must manually apply the guideline to patients if you choose to follow it. This can be done during encounter workflow. A guideline with Auto-Apply selected is not applied to a patient when a diagnosis has the Inactive or Resolved status. Open NextGen® Enterprise EHR. From File, select System \ Practice Template. The Select Template window opens. On the Practice tab, select the All option. Select Care Guideline Setup, and then select OK. The Care Guideline Setup practice template opens. Expand the Define Guideline Reasons & Auto Application panel, in Guideline Condition/Reason, enter a name for the condition or reason for the guideline. In the Reason Type field, select any from the list. In the Birth Sex fie

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Defining Guideline Reasons and Auto Application

You can use the Define Guideline Reasons & Auto Application panel to define the care guidelines condition or reason. The Define Guideline Reasons & Auto Application panel is used to set up a guideline for a condition or reason type, with criteria for birth sex, start and stop ages, and diagnosis category. The settings on this panel determine on which patients the guideline can be applied to. The Guidelines Conditions/Reasons for Reason type are created, updated, or removed from guideline in this panel. Guidelines can be configured to be applied automatically to patients by selecting the Auto-apply Yes check box. You can set Birth Sex, Start age, Stop age, and Diagnosis group for a guideline to determine when the system should automatically apply a guideline. These settings apply only when auto-apply is yes. The Guideline Reasons grid can be filtered to show only guidelines that are removed or inactive by selecting the Show only Removed/Inactive checkbox. Care Guidelines Setup Create Gu

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Information Displayed in the Care Guidelines Panel

You can view and edit the information displayed in the Care Guidelines panel. NextGen Healthcare recommends you to be familiar with the Care Guidelines panel on the Care Guidelines Paged View template for ease of use. Care Guidelines Paged View Active guidelines listed in the patient guidelines section: Patient's Guidelines section in the left pane lists all care guidelines that are currently being followed for the patient. Also called active guidelines. Badges next to each active guideline display the number of items for that guideline that are due. An item can belong to more than one care guideline. For guideline items listed in the panel: Orderable items have a check box. You must select the check box to place an order for the item. The Place Order button remains disabled until you select a check box. Care Guidelines Paged View Recommended Care items do not have a check box. Instead, they have Goals. Care Guidelines Paged View You can determine what guidelines an item belongs and se

Automatically Update and Modifying a Guideline

Recommendations

Modify Existing Guidelines

Managing Groups and Options

Update Orderable Guideline Test Items

Create Guidelines

Defining Guideline Reasons and Auto Application

Information Displayed in the Care Guidelines Panel

Modify Existing Guidelines

Managing Groups and Options

Update Orderable Guideline Test Items

Create Guidelines

Defining Guideline Reasons and Auto Application

Information Displayed in the Care Guidelines Panel