After you have configured the initial settings for the Orders Management Console, you can load or update a test order compendium. You must import compendiums to make them available to the Orders module; the NextGen database does not contain any compendiums initially.
When running the Orders Management Console, the sequence in which you process the vendors is enforced by the program. You get an error message if you try to load a vendor list before NextGen or LOINC.
You can load the compendiums in the following order:
- NextGen
- LOINC
- Vendors (for example, Labcorp, Veredigm labs)
If you have updated the NextGen compendium file, and there are no changes to the LOINC code, you update the vendor compendium.
The initial load and any updates come from the Web Server URL defined in your settings.
Note: The NextGen® Quality Measure Data Tool provides another way to load and update lab and radiology test compendiums into the NextGen® database. Loading and updating compendiums for a specific lab vendor, such as
Labcorp, is dependent on NextGen Healthcare’s support for that vendor's compendium. The NextGen Quality Measure Data Tool enables you to map a compendium to a lab vendor, update the NextGen database with LOINC, and update historical patient records in the NextGen database. For more information on this tool, go to
NextGen Healthcare Success Community, and download the latest
User Guide for NextGen Quality Measure Date Tool.
