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Select Common Orders

Before you begin

  • Ensure that you have configured the common orders display period.
  • Ensure that you have loaded and updated the laboratory and diagnostic test compendiums in the NextGen database using the Orders Management Console.
You can select laboratory, diagnostic, and immunization order items from the COMMON ORDERS list, which displays a maximum of the twenty most-frequently ordered items at the user and practice levels.
  1. Open CPOE.
  2. Select the Order Search Bar.

    The COMMON ORDERS list appears.
  3. To filter the COMMON ORDERS list by order type, select one of the following filter options.
    • All
    • Laboratory
    • Diagnostic
    • Immunization

  4. Select the performing entities for Laboratory Performing Entity and Diagnostic Performing Entity from the Performing Entity list.
  5. Select an order item.
    The order details appear. For more information on order details, see Managing Order Details.