Patient Reasons for Visits

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Patient's Reason for Visit

You can document a patient's reasons for visit. In the Reason for Visit panel, you can document the History of Present Illness (HPI), problems, and diagnosis history as the reason for a patient visit. When you select a reason for visit that is already selected in the current encounter, an alert appears indicating that the reason for visit is already selected. You can either enter the duplicate reason for visit, or remove the duplicate. For a reason for visit that has separate listings for different specialties, such as abrasion, if you select two HPIs from different specialties for the same reason, an alert appears. You can select up to fourteen HPIs simultaneously. Additionally, you can select the Do not launch HPI check box and can select any HPI to open the corresponding HPI template. Note: You can configure sub menu items for reason for visit on the Framework Content system template for the specialty. Based on the configuration, on the applicable template, the sub menu items appear

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Document the Reason for Visit

The Reason for Visit panel is where the reason for visit, as described by the patient, is documented, along with an initial History of Present Illness (HPI). The provider should review reasons for visit, update if necessary, and complete HPI information. Reason for Visit If the Introduction field contains text, review the content and make any necessary changes. The introduction appears as the first sentence of the visit note, and it can be edited for the individual patient. A typical introduction might contain the patient's age, gender, and the reason for visit. If the introduction field is blank, compose an introduction for the patient. If checked, click to clear the Do not Launch HPI check box. In the Reason for Visit data grid, click one of the reasons for visit entered previously to open the HPI template to add additional details. To add a Reasons for Visit do one of the following: Select the appropriate reason for visit in the left pane to launch the associated HPI template. Selec

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Additional Reason for Visit Panel Features

Additional features on the Reason for Visit panel enable you to adjust how you document chief complaints and HPI information, indicate follow-up visits, review the patient's HPI history, and remove studies reviewed from the grid. Feature Description Do not launch HPI Enables you to select one or more chief complaints/reasons for visit from the list without opening the HPI template To open the HPI template after selecting reasons for visit, click the row of one of the chief complaints listed in the grid. Additional/Manage Located in the left pane and opens the Reason for Visit template, where you can indicate a follow-up visit or you can type a chief complaint. The Reason for Visit template includes a complete list of chief complaints for the specialty Historic HPI Opens the Historic HPI template, where you can see the patient’s history of chief complaints and HPI details in a concatenated summary format for Ophthalmic specialties or all specialties Intake Comments Used by Intake staff

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Document Reasons for a Patient's Visit

You can document up to six reasons for a patient's visit during intake. OpenNextGen® Enterprise EHR. Open theIntaketemplate, and then expand theReason for Visitpanel. To add reasons for the patient's visit without opening another template, select Do not launch HPI, and then do one of the following: Select the reason for visit from the left navigation bar. To add a customized reason, enter the reason in Other, and then select Add. Select Additional / Manage, select appropriate reasons from the Reason for Visit window, and then select Save and Close. Note: You can view all the available history of present illnesses (HPIs) by selecting the All hpis checkbox in the Reason for Visit window. To add reasons for the patient's visit with additional details by using another template, clear the Do not launch HPI checkbox, select the necessary reasons, and then select Save & Close . To copy reasons from a previous encounter to the current encounter, select HPI History.If you have copied informatio

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Set Up HPIs to Appear in the Reason for Visit

You can set up the History of Present Illness (HPI) to appear in the reason for visit. A practice can configure the Reason for Visit panel using the Framework Content system template. For more information on the reason for visit configuration, go to NextGen Healthcare Success Community, and download the latest Framework Content System Template forNextGen®Adaptive Content Engine. Open NextGen® Enterprise EHR. From the File menu, select System \ Practice Template. The Select Template window opens. In the Show section, select All. To open the Framework Content template, double-click Framework Content. Select Specialty and select a specialty from the list. Expand the Reason for Visit panel. In Filter, select the all option. Select the reason for visit linked to the appropriate History of Present Illness (HPI), which you want to add to the all list in the Reason for Visit list. Note: The reasons for visit are linked to an HPI template on the Manage Custom Links practice template. Select OK.

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Add a Reason for Visit

You can add up to six HPIs as the reason for a patient visit for an encounter. Open the Intake template. Expand the Reason for Visit panel. To do a full skin exam, in the Complete skin exam desired? question, click the Yes option. To add a reason for visit without additional details select the Do not launch HPI check box. To add a reason for visit with additional details on the HPI template, clear the Do not launch HPI check box. In the left pane, click the needed entries. The selected reasons for visit appear in the Reason for Visit column. If the reason for visit is not listed in the panel, do the following: Click the Other list and select the reason for visit from the resulting list. You can also type a reason in the Other field and click Add. To document any details, click the Intake Comments link. The Intake Comments window opens. Enter comments and click Save & Close. The color of the Intake Comments link changes. Parent topic: Intake Template

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