Prerequisites for Opening External Applications

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Open External Applications from NextGen® Enterprise EHR

Before you begin Ensure that you do the required configuration for each external application that can be launched from NextGen® Enterprise EHR or NextGen® Enterprise PM. Without required user privilege, the External Applications icon does not appear on Patient Information Card (PIC). For more information, go to NextGen Healthcare Success Community, and download the latest System Administrator Guide forNextGen®Enterprise. NextGen® Enterprise EHR allows you to launch external applications from third-party vendors using the External Applications icon on the Patient Information Card. Note: You can access only the applications that are licensed and configured for use in your practice. Open NextGen® Enterprise EHR, and select a patient from the Patient Lookup window. On the Encounter History tab, select an encounter. On the PIC, select External Applications, and select an external application from the available list. The External Applications icon appears in the Patient Information Card in N

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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

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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

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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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Allowing API Access for Users

Users can run programs or use features that call NextGen® API Solutions when the Allow API Access right is set to Yes. API access is a prerequisite for users of NextGen® Enterprise EHR and NextGen® Enterprise PM to open external applications and reply to messages from NextGen® PxP Portal. Parent topic: Subgroups of the Operations Permissions Group

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