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Order NextGen Test Compendium Master File

The Order NextGen Test Compendium includes a list of all lab and radiology tests defined by NextGen. Before setting up NextGen Compendium, your system administrator must run the Order Management Console. The Order Management Console maps NextGen compendium codes to individual testing entity tables (such as Labcorp) that a practice uses to process tests. If your practice uses other compendiums, you must perform this process manually.

By mapping the NextGen Compendium codes to Order Test codes (vendor compendiums), NextGen® Enterprise EHR enables users to order based on the NextGen compendium codes; and, therefore, ensuring the appropriate mapped vendor code is sent across the interface. This is particularly important when ordering from a template, since the templates are created using NextGen compendium codes. This enables you to configure one set of Favorites using the Compendium codes.

If you update the User Description on the Modify NextGen Compendium Master Codes dialog box, you must run the appropriate SQL script to update existing results.

This Order NextGen Test Compendium replaces the Lab Test Master from the 5.5 version of NextGen® Enterprise EHR.

NextGen® Enterprise EHR, version 5.7 and later do not come with default compendiums loaded. To load the NextGen compendium for the Orders module (5.7 versions and later), use the Orders Management Console.

If you have any questions on running the Orders Management Console, contact NextGen Customer Support.

If you are implementing an interface for the first time, Customer Support will assist in doing a onetime load of the labs compendium during the interface installation.