Defining Guideline Reasons and Auto Application

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

You can find answers for frequently asked questions about Care Guidelines for a patient. The FAQs panel on the Care Guidelines Setup template is where you can find answers for many frequently asked questions about the care guidelines application, how it works, and how to use it to perform common tasks. FAQs Find Information for Issues in the FAQs Grid You can view information for a specific topic listed in the FAQs grid. Search for Information for a Specific Topic You can search for information for a specific topic for a patient's issue. Print Out Displayed Information for a Specific Topic You can print copies of a document for a patient's specific issue. Parent topic: Panels Used in Setting Up Orderable Items

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Setting Up Intervention Tests Orders

You can set up the orderable test on the Care Guidelines Setup template. You can define the orderable tests (formerly protocols) for a guideline in the Intervention/Orders Setup panel on the Care Guidelines Setup practice template. Initially, the grid displays all orderable tests for all guidelines in the system. You can select a condition or reason from the Condition/Reason and Reason type field and filter the grid so that it only displays the orderable tests that are part of that guideline. Orderable Tests Setup Panel CAUTION: Changes made to guideline items in the Intervention/Orders Setup panel impact all patients. Changes made at a patient level only impact that specific patient. Patient level changes are made on the Care Guideline Setup template. 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. Remove/Inactivate an Existing Orderable Guideline Item You can remove an o

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Interventions Test Equivalent Codes or Descriptions

You can define additional descriptions and codes in the Interventions or Test Equivalent Codes or Descriptions panel. The Interventions/Test Equivalent Codes/Descriptions panel is available on the Care Guidelines Setup practice template. There are three sections on the Interventions/Test Equivalent Codes/Descriptions panel where you can define additional descriptions and codes for orderable items that can be used with care guidelines: Intervention Equivalents File Maintenance Mappings Document Types / Codifications Interventions_Test Equivalent Codes_Description The data entered on this panel is used to map a test name used by a practice to a description or code used by an outside location or vendor. CAUTION: It is the best practice to add tests, along with codes or descriptions as needed for mapping instead of modifying or deleting those that come shipped with NextGen® Adaptive Content Engine. This information is stored in the Test Codes data set on the Data Sets Setup practice templa

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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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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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View Removed (Inactive) Guidelines

You can view removed guideline for a patient 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 Define Guideline Reasons & Auto Application panel, select the Show only Removed/Inactive checkbox. All guidelines that are removed and are not inactive are displayed. Define Guideline Reasons & Auto Application Parent topic: Defining Guideline Reasons and Auto Application

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