Handling Duplicate Tests

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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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Pediatric Care Guidelines

You can apply the pre-defined guidelines to a pediatric patient for all the defined age groups. The pediatric care guideline Peds differs from other pre-defined guidelines because the pediatric guideline has multiple well visits that are to take place as the patient reaches defined ages. When the pediatric guideline is applied to a pediatric patient, all actual due dates display even if they are far into the future, including for any well visit for which the actual age of the patient exceeds the usual or defined age for the visit. Any visit or test for which the child exceeds the Stop Age does not display. The test displays at the time the guideline is applied but with a note that says the patient exceeds the recommended age. At the next encounter, these tests do not display at all. Well visits for a specific age are completed during the course of a well visit encounter based on the well visit diagnosis code and the age of the child. Autism screens are completed when the MCHAT™ is comp

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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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Panels Used in Setting Up Orderable Items

You can set up the orderable items for a patient associated with orders in the NextGen Adaptive Content Engine. The Orderable items (formerly protocols), are associated with orders in the NextGen® Adaptive Content Engine, they have CPT® billing and compendium codes. Panel Description Manage Groups and Options Enables you to provide the functionality to create to guidelines based on the reason types. Define Guideline Reasons & Auto Application Enables you to define guidelines for a condition or disease. Interventions / Orders Setup Enables you to set up lab tests, diagnostic studies, and examinations (orderable items) for a guideline. Interventions/Test Equivalent Codes/Descriptions Intervention Equivalents section Enables you to set up any test descriptions or billing codes that are equivalent synonyms for a test defined in a guideline using either a description or a test code. You do not have to enter both. Document Types/Codifications section Enables you to use the Document Types/Cod

Handling Duplicate Tests

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Setting Up Intervention Tests Orders

Interventions Test Equivalent Codes or Descriptions

Pediatric Care Guidelines

Defining Guideline Reasons and Auto Application

Panels Used in Setting Up Orderable Items

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Setting Up Intervention Tests Orders

Interventions Test Equivalent Codes or Descriptions

Pediatric Care Guidelines

Defining Guideline Reasons and Auto Application

Panels Used in Setting Up Orderable Items