Invalid Document Margins

NextGen® Enterprise EHR Help

Document Type Viewers

NextGen® Enterprise EHR provides the following three document viewers for use with different document formats. You can specify document viewers under NextGen® Enterprise EHR Documents Preferences. Your system administrator can help you determine which viewers are appropriate for your practice. Viewer Format Supported Description TX Text .doc .docx .rtf .txt TX Text is the default viewer for all patient documents. It is also the default viewer for documents in Rich Text Format (RTF) and plain text format that are attached to patient encounters/categories in NextGen® Enterprise EHR through the Document Monitor utility. Note: NextGen® Healthcare recommends using the TX Text viewer for all supported document formats. The ability to insert addendums and lab results in a patient document is available with this viewer only. Word Application .doc .docx .hed .rtf .txt Note: To use this viewer, you must have Microsoft® Word installed and the Browse in the same window option enabled in Microsoft®

NextGen® Enterprise EHR Help

Invalid Document Margins

For documents displayed in the TX Text viewer, NextGen® Enterprise EHR checks for the following invalid margin conditions: Negative value Viewable document area less than one inch Outside-the-margin limits supported by the selected printer Margins are not checked on documents printed to Portable Document Format (PDF) or Extended Markup Language (XML) Paper Specification (XPS) format. Note: Invalid margins may occur on HighEdit documents that are saved as RTF files. If any invalid conditions exist, the Margin Fix window opens. The Preview pane shows the current margin values and document appearance with those margins. The Margins pane displays suggested and original margin values. The Printer pane displays the minimum hard margins supported by the printer. Parent topic: Patient Documents

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Set up Documents Preferences

You can set up documents preferences for: Viewers by document type A default generator and a default printer for documents launched from a template trigger and generated offline using the Document Queue utility Checking spelling in documents (TX Text viewer only) Default layout view of TX Text documents Open NextGen® Enterprise EHR. Select Tools and select Preferences. The Preferences window opens. Select the Documents tab. Set up the applicable preferences in each section. To save preferences, perform one of the following: Select OK to save the preferences and close the window. Select Apply if you want to continue setting other user preferences on tabs in the window. Document Viewer Preferences Default Generator and Printer Preferences Set up Spell Checker Preferences Parent topic: Patient Documents

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Attach Addendums to Patient Document

Before you begin To use addendums, the following settings are required in the System Administrator application: The Save As RTF Universal Preference must be set to False. Under Operations Rights / EHR Documents/Add Document Addendums, your user Access Rights must be set to Yes. The TX Text viewer enables you to attach an addendum to a signed-off patient document, if you have permission to do so. You can attach multiple addendums to a single patient document. The addendum feature is not available in the HighEdit or Word Application viewer. Note: You can attach an addendum to a third-party patient document after you sign off on it. If an update is received for the patient document, and document archiving is enabled, the updated document is sent to the NextGen® Clinical Message Manager. The update does not automatically overwrite the original document and any attached addendum. From NextGen Clinical Message Manager, you can manually commit the updated document to NextGen® Enterprise EHR a

NextGen® Enterprise EHR Help

Document Type Viewers

NextGen® Enterprise EHR provides the following three document viewers for use with different document formats. You can specify document viewers under NextGen® Enterprise EHR Documents Preferences. Your system administrator can help you determine which viewers are appropriate for your practice. Viewer Format Supported Description TX Text .doc .docx .rtf .txt TX Text is the default viewer for all patient documents. It is also the default viewer for documents in Rich Text Format (RTF) and plain text format that are attached to patient encounters/categories in NextGen® Enterprise EHR through the Document Monitor utility. Note: NextGen® Healthcare recommends using the TX Text viewer for all supported document formats. The ability to insert addendums and lab results in a patient document is available with this viewer only. Word Application .doc .docx .hed .rtf .txt Note: To use this viewer, you must have Microsoft® Word installed and the Browse in the same window option enabled in Microsoft®

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Document Generation Results

If document generation is successful, NextGen® Enterprise EHR generates the selected document using all the available data. The system applies any options you selected. The generated document is displayed in the designated document viewer. You can view user and file information for the document, print it, or fax it. To change the generated document, you can enter information directly into it, and adjust the font, size, and other formatting styles as required. The TX Text viewer highlights any detected text errors. The TX Text viewer enables you to: Identify and fix invalid margin conditions Include selected lab and radiology results in the document Select other actions from the viewer toolbars and document menu Identify text detected with possible errors by a red-dotted underline Select an option to remove a duplicate word To save the document, you can select the Save icon on the NextGen® Enterprise EHR Top Toolbar. The document is attached to the selected encounter. After you save the

Invalid Document Margins

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Document Type Viewers

Invalid Document Margins

Set up Documents Preferences

Attach Addendums to Patient Document

Document Type Viewers

Document Generation Results

Invalid Document Margins

Document Type Viewers

Invalid Document Margins

Set up Documents Preferences

Attach Addendums to Patient Document

Document Type Viewers

Document Generation Results