Add an Existing Image to the Patient Chart

NextGen® Enterprise EHR Help

Scan an Image to Add to the Patient Chart

Before you begin Ensure that you have access to a scanner and have scanning software on the workstation. Open NextGen® Enterprise EHR and select a patient. Select an existing encounter from the Encounter History or create an encounter. To open the Images module, do one of the following: On the Top Toolbar, select the Images icon. On the main menu, select File > New > Image. The Open Image File window opens. Select either the Scan One or Scan All button.The Select Source window opens. Select the scanner name, and select Select.The Imaging module and your scanner's software window opens. To scan the image, follow the on-screen instructions on scanner window.After completion of scanning , the image appears in the Imaging module. Select Save.The scanned image added to the patient's chart. Parent topic: Opening the Imaging Module

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Add a Web Camera Image to the Patient Chart

Open NextGen® Enterprise EHR and select a patient. Select an existing encounter from the Encounter History or create an encounter. To open the Images module, do one of the following: On the Top Toolbar, select the Images icon. On the main menu, select File > New > Image. The Open Image File window opens. Select the Camera button.The Camera Capture window opens. The system searches for connected cameras. If it finds one, the image from the camera is displayed. If no camera is present, the window remains blank. To capture the displayed image, select Snapshot. To add the image to the patient chart, select OK.The image is added to the patient's chart. Parent topic: Opening the Imaging Module

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Open an Image from the Patient Chart

Open NextGen® Enterprise EHR and select a patient. Choose the image on the Encounter History or Categories tab. Double-click the image. The Imaging module opens the selected image in the work area. Parent topic: Opening the Imaging Module

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Open PDFs

Open NextGen® Enterprise EHR and select a patient. Select a specific encounter. To open the Images module, do one of the following: On the Top Toolbar, select the Images icon. On the main menu, select File > New > Image. The Open Image File window opens. Select a PDF from the list of available files, and then do one of the following: Double-click the file. Select the file name, and then select Open The selected PDF opens in the work area. Parent topic: Opening the Imaging Module

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Save an Image to an Encounter

Images are saved to a specific encounter. If an encounter is locked, you cannot modify its images. You can either create an addendum to the encounter or create a custom encounter for the specific date. For more information about encounters, go to NextGen Healthcare Success Community, and download the latest Layout and Preferences Guide for NextGen® Enterprise EHR. On the Top Toolbar, select Save. The Save Image File window opens. On the Save Image File window, do the following: Select the Show categories check box. The Show categories pane opens within the Save Image File window. Save Image File Window Enter the image description in the Please enter image description field. Note: NextGen Healthcare strongly recommends to save the images with consistent file names to make them available for reuse. Select the Add description to the list check box to add the specified description to the image. To select the previously saved image from the list, enter the corresponding file name or descrip

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Add an Image to a Category

Before you begin You must have the necessary user rights to add an image to a category. In NextGen® Enterprise EHR Categories tab, you can add an image to multiple categories, and you can remove an image from a category. Open NextGen® Enterprise EHR, and select a patient from the Patient Lookup window. To open the Images module, do one of the following: On the Top Toolbar, select the Images icon. On the main menu, select File > New > Image. The Open Image File window opens. Open Image File Window Select the required image, and select Open. The image opens. On the Top Toolbar, select Save. The Save Image File window opens. On the Save Image File window, do the following: Select the Show categories check box. The Show categories pane opens within the Save Image File window. Save Image File Window Enter the image description in the Please enter image description field. Note: NextGen Healthcare strongly recommends to save the images with consistent file names to make them available for reu

Add an Existing Image to the Patient Chart

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Scan an Image to Add to the Patient Chart

Add a Web Camera Image to the Patient Chart

Open an Image from the Patient Chart

Open PDFs

Save an Image to an Encounter

Add an Image to a Category

Scan an Image to Add to the Patient Chart

Add a Web Camera Image to the Patient Chart

Open an Image from the Patient Chart

Open PDFs

Save an Image to an Encounter

Add an Image to a Category