Overview of Well Child Visit
You can use the Well Child visit type to document routine checkups for a pediatric patient.
Using the Well child visit type, you can document a history of present illness, child development history, anticipatory guidance, and various screening tests.
The Well child encounter workflow is similar to the Office Visit workflow, with the exception that the Pediatric SOAP template is available in place of SOAP template.
- Intake staff begins the visit by selecting Pediatrics or Family Practice for the Specialty and Well child for Visit Type on the Intake template.
- Intake staff then documents all the necessary details of the visit in the Intake and Histories tabs, and generates Intake Note.
- Provider reviews the details documented by the medical assistant and selects the Pediatric SOAP tab to proceed with a comprehensive review and documentation of the well child visit.
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