Immunization Pre-Setup Practice Considerations

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Administering Immunizations High-Level Workflow and Tips

To support your practice’s Immunizations administration process, determine which Immunizations workflow or task is appropriate to perform for each patient. The Immunizations functionality enables you to select the appropriate vaccines, provide vaccine details during administration, and track and complete each Immunization life cycle efficiently. There may be various scenarios a physician and clinical staff encounter when ordering and executing an immunization. For example, special patient needs, such as a VFC-eligibility, allergy sensitivities, or parental consent; billing considerations, available vaccines in the inventory, and ensuring the most appropriate vaccines are selected according to immunization schedules. The Immunizations workflows range from basic, such when you administer a flu shot, or more specific considerations, such as administering vaccines for Medicare patients, administering live vaccines, or when a vaccine is not in the inventory. You can perform other types of I

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Immunizations Workflows

For each visit, you need the flexibility to work with the Immunization functions as each event occurs in real time. If needed, for example, you may need to do any of the following: View or hide dose exceptions when administering immunizations. Select and document Excluded Immunizations. Document that an Immunizations series is complete. Mark a patient who has no previously documented immunizations for reporting purposes and tracking. Report adverse events. Document erroneous or wasted immunizations. Open File Maintenance or the Vaccine Inventory as you process an Immunization order. Viewing or Hiding Dose Exceptions when Administering Immunizations Select Vaccines to Exclude Document that a Series is Complete Patient with no Previously Documented Immunizations Reporting Adverse Events and Accessing Other Immunizations Schedules Documenting Erroneous or Wasted Immunizations Access the Vaccine Inventory While Administering Immunizations Access Vaccine Billing While Administering Immuniza

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Setting up Immunizations Tasks to Streamline Vaccine Billing

To streamline vaccine billing as you complete various Immunizations tasks, ensure that billing administrators and appropriate clinical staff set up your NDC ID codes and SIM codes appropriately. Set up and map Custom SIM Codes for Immunizations Billing Set up Vaccine Billing Administration codes. Before you set up the vaccine inventory, select your practice’s default NDC Library and set up the NDC Library. Note: This enables the system to display the NDC details in the NDC Lookup when you add or update the vaccine inventory; or when you administer Immunizations in the Immunizations module. For accurate billing of alternate Medicare billing codes of certain Flu vaccines, your billing administrators also need to set up the NDC ID codes in the NDC Library. If you administer VFC Immunizations to VFC-eligible patients in your practice, for VFC billing purposes, you can configure unique custom SIM codes for the VFC and non-VFC patients for each location. Setting Up and Mapping Custom SIM Cod

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Setting up Rights and Preferences for the Immunizations Module

The System Administrator should work closely with the core team of the practice to ensure that appropriate rights, preferences, SAP® Crystal Reports®, other reports, and other tasks are set up for the user groups. The administrator needs to update the Setup when the business needs change for the practice. Some functions and preferences are same for the Immunizations module and the Orders module. Therefore, if you are using the Orders module, ensure that you set up the preferences for the Orders module before you set up the Immunizations module. For more information, go to NextGen Healthcare Success Community and download the latest Orders Module Setup Guide for NextGen® Enterprise EHR. Set up Rights and Preferences for the Immunizations Module Immunizations System Rights and Permissions Setting up Immunizations Universal Preferences Set up Rights for Applying Order Preferences Across Practices Set up the Security Rights to Access Clinical Reconciliation Immunizations Data Set up the Ta

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Administering Immunizations

Each patient is unique and the Immunizations module provides flexibility and efficient functionality to help you administer each immunization according to patient needs. After you determine which immunization the patient needs, the next step is to administer the specific Immunization order. Each order requires certain information about the vaccine and other pertinent information such as billing codes, registry, and special patient needs, for example Medicare patients. During the administration process, you can review the VIS history, print the VIS document, track the Immunizations life cycle for each order, and administer a vaccine not in the Vaccine Inventory. After you have administered the immunization, for your records, you can print the Immunization Summary report to view a patient’s immunizations. For an overview of the Immunizations Order process, see Administering Immunizations High-Level Workflow and Tips. While working on the Immunizations module, you can ensure your spelling

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Setting Up and Maintaining Your Practice's Orders Workflow Foundation

To schedule, process, track, and complete your order more efficiently, you need to set up the NextGen® Enterprise EHR Orders module to meet your specific practice needs. Once you set up your NextGen® Enterprise EHR Orders module, you can then update and maintain these settings as your business needs change and the Orders process evolves over time. Before performing Orders tasks, such as creating and sending Lab and Radiology orders, you need to set up the appropriate system rights, preferences, and tasks for the Orders module. The setup enables you to establish the workflow foundation for your practice or enterprise and enables providers and the clinical staff to access and use the appropriate functionality. The Orders module setup functions and options provide flexibility and enable you to establish a strong foundation for your Orders life cycle. After you complete the setup tasks, to begin working with orders, go to NextGen Healthcare Success Community and download the latest Orders

Immunization Pre-Setup Practice Considerations

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Administering Immunizations High-Level Workflow and Tips

Immunizations Workflows

Setting up Immunizations Tasks to Streamline Vaccine Billing

Setting up Rights and Preferences for the Immunizations Module

Administering Immunizations

Setting Up and Maintaining Your Practice's Orders Workflow Foundation

Administering Immunizations High-Level Workflow and Tips

Immunizations Workflows

Setting up Immunizations Tasks to Streamline Vaccine Billing

Setting up Rights and Preferences for the Immunizations Module

Administering Immunizations

Setting Up and Maintaining Your Practice's Orders Workflow Foundation