You can document a patient's functional and cognitive assessments in the Functional and Cognitive Assessment Status panel.
The data entered in the Functional and Cognitive Assessment Status panel is shared with the Health Promotion Plan, Medicare Preventive HPI, Screening Summary, and Care Plan templates to measure compliance and for surveillance reporting.
- Open NextGen® Enterprise EHR.
- Open the Intake template.
- Expand the Vital Signs panel, and then select the Health Promotion Plan link.
The Health Promotion Plan template opens.
- Expand the Functional and Cognitive Assessment Status panel.
- For Functional Status and Cognitive Status, do the following:
- If there is no change in the functional status of the patient, select No Change.
- If there is a change in the functional status or cognitive status of the patient, select Change.
- Select the Status field, and select the appropriate option from the list.
- Enter the assessment method and used method.
- To change the date, select the Cl button, and select another date.
Note: If you modify any details in Functional status or Cognitive Status, the Most recent assessment field is filled with the current encounter date.
Note: If you select a previous date to the latest assessment date entered for this patient on an earlier encounter, NextGen® Enterprise EHR displays a message.