Graphing Preferences

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Generating Pediatric Growth Charts

NextGen® Enterprise EHR enables you to generate age-based growth charts. Percentiles on a growth chart are used to compare a pediatric patient to other children of the same gender and age. The percentiles are shown as lines drawn in curved patterns. In addition to standard growth charts, specialized growth charts are available for Turner syndrome, Down syndrome, and premature patients. You can generate growth charts from NextGen® Adaptive Content Engine or NextGen® Enterprise EHR custom templates. You can also select a growth chart type from the NextGen® Enterprise EHR File menu for a specific NextGen® Enterprise EHR custom or NextGen® Adaptive Content Engine template. After you generate a growth chart, you can adjust the plot, customize the display, and save and print the graph. To begin using growth charts, you must have a patient open in NextGen® Enterprise EHR. For detailed instructions on working with locations, providers, patients, and encounters in NextGen® Enterprise EHR, go to

NextGen® Enterprise EHR Help

Access the Graphing Module

In NextGen® Enterprise EHR, open a patient. For more information on opening a patient, go to NextGen Healthcare Success Community, and download the latest Patient Demographics Guide for NextGen Enterprise. From the File menu, select Graph. Select the graph type: Order Results, Templates, Timeline, or a Growth Chart option. Parent topic: Graph Generation

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Generate a Growth Chart from the File Menu

Before you begin Make sure that you have set up Graphing preferences that correspond to the template and field values that data are graphed from. To generate a specialty growth chart, set up the applicable preference for Gestational Age (premature patients), Down Syndrome Indicator, or Turner Syndrome Indicator. To graph a growth chart using a measurement date instead of an encounter date, enter the Measurement Date Column preference. You can also set up preferences to Print Patient Name, Print Patient Date of Birth, and Print Chart Print Time on the generated growth chart. Open the pediatric patient's history in NextGen® Enterprise EHR. From the File menu, select Graph, Growth Charts. Select one of the following: BMI Height Weight Head Circum Weight for Length NextGen® Enterprise EHR plots the graph for the selected growth chart using template data from all of the patient's encounters. Right-click the graph to display a menu, with options to select other available plots, print the gro

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Universal Preferences

The System Administrator application allows you to set up Universal Preferences that apply to all users of the NextGen® Enterprise application. The System Administrator application specifies this information directly in the database. Universal Preferences replace the preferences, settings, and paths specified in the NextGen.ini file for NextGen® Enterprise EHR version 3.9.x and lower. If you have been using such NextGen® Enterprise EHR versions, you can import all preferences, settings, and paths that were set in the .ini file into your Universal Preferences. Note: You can set preferences specifically for a single user. Preferences that are set up at the user level override Universal Preferences. See User Preferences for more information. Set Up Universal Preferences How to use System Administrator to configure preferences that are not specific to a particular practice.

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Growth Chart Generation from the NextGen® Enterprise EHR File Menu

You can generate the following growth charts for a pediatric patient from the NextGen® Enterprise EHR File menu for either NextGen® Enterprise EHR custom templates or NextGen® Adaptive Content Engine templates. You do not need to open the template. Age vs. BMI Age vs. Height Age vs. Weight Age vs. Head Circumference Weight for Length Each growth chart shows the percentile where the patient's measurement falls in relation to pediatric peers, represented by a red dot. For information on the available age ranges, data sources, and percentiles graphed, see Standard Growth Charts, Premature Growth Charts, Turner Syndrome Growth Charts, and Down Syndrome Growth Charts. You can also generate growth charts by: Selecting growth chart links on NextGen® Adaptive Content Engine pediatric templates. Inserting a growth chart Graph field on your NextGen® Enterprise EHR custom template. For more information on Graph fields, go to NextGen Healthcare Success Community, and download the latest Templates

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View User Preferences

Open NextGen® Enterprise EHR. From the Tools menu, select Preferences. The Preferences window opens. The window contains the following tabs: General (displays by default when you open the Preferences window) Main Toolbar Medical Records Templates Medications Formulary Reference Quality Reporting Documents Parent topic: User Preferences

Graphing Preferences

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Generating Pediatric Growth Charts

Access the Graphing Module

Generate a Growth Chart from the File Menu

Universal Preferences

Growth Chart Generation from the NextGen® Enterprise EHR File Menu

View User Preferences

Generating Pediatric Growth Charts

Access the Graphing Module

Generate a Growth Chart from the File Menu

Universal Preferences

Growth Chart Generation from the NextGen® Enterprise EHR File Menu

View User Preferences