Open External Applications from NextGen® Enterprise EHR

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Prerequisites for Opening External Applications

To open external applications in NextGen® Enterprise EHR and NextGen® Enterprise PM, you must meet the following prerequisites. NextGen® API Suite Manager must be installed. For details, refer to the following: Pre-API Installation Client Readiness Checklist NextGen Enterprise API (see API Suite Manager Installation Process Steps) NextGen®API Suite Manager Installation Guide forNextGen®Enterprise in NextGen Healthcare Success Community API Post-Install Client Readiness Checklist Depending on the application you are opening, the system may need to have network connectivity to the server of a third-party application vendor. The API connectivity requirements would have already been met during NextGen® API Suite Manager installation. You can contact the third-party application vendor to inquire about any additional network connectivity requirements for functions beyond the scope of API integration. Parent topic: Opening External Applications

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Opening External Applications

NextGen Healthcare has a number of vendors that have integrated their applications with the NextGen® Enterprise platform. The vendor applications use NextGen® Enterprise API solutions to interact with your electronic health records data. Many of these applications are listed on NextGen API Marketplace, which includes application information and links to the respective vendor websites. Some of these vendor applications are designed to be easily opened from NextGen® Enterprise EHR or NextGen® Enterprise PM. These external applications run code from other vendors. In NextGen® Enterprise EHR, you can use the following features to open external applications: The External Applications button on the patient information card. The Launch External Application trigger. A trigger is a template component that associates an action with a given User Interface (UI) control, such as a button. You can use the Template Editor to add this trigger to custom templates. In NextGen® Enterprise PM, you can use

System Administrator Help

Opening External Applications

NextGen Healthcare has a number of vendors that have integrated their applications with the NextGen® Enterprise platform. The vendor applications use NextGen® Enterprise API solutions to interact with your electronic health records data. Many of these applications are listed on NextGen API Marketplace, which includes application information and links to the respective vendor websites. Some of these vendor applications are designed to be easily opened from NextGen® Enterprise EHR or NextGen® Enterprise PM. These external applications run code from other vendors. In NextGen® Enterprise EHR, you can use the following features to open external applications: The External Applications button on the patient information card. The Launch External Application trigger. A trigger is a template component that associates an action with a given User Interface (UI) control, such as a button. You can use the Template Editor to add this trigger to custom templates. In NextGen® Enterprise PM, you can use

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Control Whether Users Can Open External Applications

To enable users to open external applications from NextGen® Enterprise EHR or NextGen® Enterprise PM, you must ensure that the Allow API Access security right is enabled for the desired user groups. This right includes all methods of opening external applications, whether from the Patient Information Card (PIC) or the Launch External Application template trigger. Note: The Allow API Access security right is set to Yes by default. In System Administrator, open the enterprise and practice, and select a user group. Select the Rights tab. Select OPERATIONS > Allow API Access. Allow API Access right in System Administrator Under Access Rights, select Yes or No. Parent topic: Opening External Applications

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Configure External Applications

System Administrator provides the EXTERNAL APPLICATION SETUP window to configure each external application that users can open from NextGen® Enterprise EHR or NextGen® Enterprise PM. For NextGen® Enterprise EHR, this configuration applies to both the External Applications button and the Launch External Application template trigger. In System Administrator, select View > External Application Setup. The EXTERNAL APPLICATION SETUP window opens. The list of licensed applications appears in the left pane. EXTERNAL APPLICATION SETUP Window If the EXTERNAL APPLICATION SETUP window does not open, a message may appear indicating the following. Your user account does not have permission to access the EXTERNAL APPLICATION SETUP window. In this case, enable the OPERATIONS > Administration > External Application Setup security right for your user group. The API is not available. For information about troubleshooting NextGen API services, refer to the NextGen®API Suite Manager Installation Guide for

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Using Layout and User Preferences

NextGen® Enterprise EHR layout comprises menus and toolbars such as Title bar, Main menu, Top toolbar, and Status bar. You can set the user preferences and work with patient encounters and categories. You can also view the calendars and icons, and access the Alerts module, if the Patient Information Card (PIC) is enabled. The PIC in NextGen® Enterprise EHR provides the following information. Patient general information Patient demographics information Patient medical summary information Encounter-based information NextGen® Enterprise comes with an integrated spelling checker that automatically detects and corrects spelling errors as you type alphanumeric characters in certain text fields. You can use the spelling checker only on editable fields. NextGen Enterprise EHR User Interface Overview of the Main Window Overview of the NextGen® Enterprise EHR main window, its menus, toolbars, modules, and other components components. Quick Buttons for Patient Medical Summary Information You can

Open External Applications from NextGen® Enterprise EHR

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