Clear and Restore Utility

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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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Activate Care Guidelines Template

You can activate a care guideline for a patient in the Activate Care Guideline template. The tasks that are done occasionally are performed on the Activate Care Guidelines template, such as: Activating a care guideline Removing a care guideline or guideline item Re-applying a removed clinical guideline or guideline item Viewing clinical references for guideline items Adding a diagnosis from the patient’s problem list to the patient's ICD billing list Reviewing care guideline history for the patient Note: You must activate a care guideline initially, usually only once. The guideline must be activated before it can be followed for a patient. Activate Care Guidelines Panels on the Activate Care Guidelines Template You can use the panels on the template to activate the care guideline for a patient. Activating a Care Guideline You can activate a care guideline for a patient on the Activate Care Guidelines template. Removing a Care Guideline or Individual Guideline Item You can remove a care

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Care Guidelines Clear/Restore Utility

You can clear and restore the content of a care guideline for any patient data. Use the Care Guidelines Clear and Restore practice template to reset care guidelines data and settings back to the original defaults. You can do the following: Restore the NextGen healthcare provided default definitions for care guidelines, this removes care guidelines content you have configured at the practice level. Choose to clear all the care guidelines information at the patient level, such as guidelines activated for patients and their reasons, and any customizations made. This allows you to start over with using care guidelines. CAUTION: Restoring care guidelines default definitions and clearing care guidelines related patient data is a one-time use function. After you decide to run this utility, you cannot recover the data. This utility should not be run when you are using the application. Open the Care Guidelines Clear and Restore Practice Template You can clear and restore the content of a care g

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Exporting Selected Patient Level Care Guidelines Data during Removing or Restoring

You can export selected patient level care guidelines data during the removing and restoring process. On theNextGen® Adaptive Content Engine version 8.4.x or later, the Report and Remove and Report and Restore panels on the Care Guidelines Clear and Restore practice template have an Export button that allows you to export the patient data records displayed in the grid to a CSV format file. Note: The Export feature is not available on NextGen® Adaptive Content Engine 8.3.x version databases. Export Selected Patient Level Care Guidelines Data You can export selected patient level care guidelines data during the removing and restoring process. Parent topic: Clear and Restore Utility

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Reporting and Restoring Selected Patient Level Care Guidelines Data

You can report and restore a patient's care guidelines data using the Report and Restore panel. You can restore care guidelines data only during the same cleanup session in which they were removed. You can run a search to view records for care guideline items to restore, including the number of patients and encounters that restoring them affects. After selecting filter options, running the search, and viewing results, you can decide to restore the patient level guideline data for the guideline items displayed in the grid. Filter options can be adjusted until the grid displays those guideline items you wish to restore. To restore patient-level data for the selected guidelines displayed in the grid, you must select the Restore button while the care guidelines application is in Cleanup mode, and no data can be entered for patients or activities related to care guidelines. You can review and restore care guideline items either for one specific practice or for all practices within the enter

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Reporting and Removing Selected Patient Level Care Guidelines Data

You can report and remove a patient's care guidelines using the Care Guidelines Clear and Restore template. The Report and Remove panel on the Care Guidelines Clear and Restore practice template allows you to run a search to select and view records for guideline items and the number of patients that they affect, along with the number of affected encounters. After running the search and viewing results, you can decide to remove the patient level guideline data for the guideline items displayed in the grid. Select the Start button to put the care guidelines application in Cleanup mode. While the system is in Cleanup mode, do not enter the data for patients or perform activities related to care guidelines. Care guideline items are reviewed and removed for one practice or for all of the practices in an enterprise. Note: The grid displays the guideline records after you select the search criteria. You can view the individual records before you decide to remove patient-level data. Report and

Clear and Restore Utility

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Setting Up Care Guidelines for Use

Activate Care Guidelines Template

Care Guidelines Clear/Restore Utility

Exporting Selected Patient Level Care Guidelines Data during Removing or Restoring

Reporting and Restoring Selected Patient Level Care Guidelines Data

Reporting and Removing Selected Patient Level Care Guidelines Data

Setting Up Care Guidelines for Use

Activate Care Guidelines Template

Care Guidelines Clear/Restore Utility

Exporting Selected Patient Level Care Guidelines Data during Removing or Restoring

Reporting and Restoring Selected Patient Level Care Guidelines Data

Reporting and Removing Selected Patient Level Care Guidelines Data