Load or Update a Test Compendium

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Saving Loaded Compendiums

When the data load of the compendium is complete, the toolbar at the bottom of the window provides three options: Go Home, Save Modified or Save. The Go Home button exits a compendium load that has not been completed. If you select Go Home, a warning message appears and asks if you want to stop the update. If you select Yes, the file update is not completed, and you return to the Home window The Save Modified button saves only the modified items and displays a window showing the status of the saved items. The Save button saves the records displayed on the Save Preview window. Parent topic: Importing Compendiums or Updates with the Orders Management Console

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Settings for First Time Use of the Orders Management Console

To use the Orders Management Console, you start by selecting your desktop button, or select Orders Management Console from the NextGen application launcher. You are asked for a user log on. You should also choose your Enterprise and Practice. When you use the Orders Management Console the configuration options need to be set up (select Settings on the bottom left on the screen). When you use the Orders Management Console for the first time, if the required settings are incomplete, a warning is displayed. Note: : This warning is displayed every time the Orders Management Console is started with undefined or incomplete settings. When you select OK, you are automatically presented with the configuration Orders Management Console window where you enter the Settings to run the Compendium Management program. The minimum required settings are: Web Server URL Download Directory path The default URL displayed is the Server URL. You need to define the Download Directory and it must be a shared f

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Load or Update a Test Compendium

You can use the Orders Management Console to update both lab and radiology compendium values. Your specific Favorites are set up through File Maintenance. The Orders Management Console is used for loading the compendiums, not Favorites lists. To handle the view on the Compendium Management window, you can filter what you see (All, lab or radiology). You cannot save when filters are active. You can use the options Keep Mine, Accept Downloaded, Automatic, and Manual on the bottom toolbar to reconcile the downloaded (vendor) compendium data. Open the Orders Management Console. Enter your credentials. The initial Orders Management Console window opens, and displays a message asking which compendium you want to update. The default compendiums, NextGen and LOINC, appear as options when you start the Orders Management Console. Each item in the compendium list contains the name of the compendium and the download status. If this is the first time you are running the compendium, the status is Do

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Importing Compendiums or Updates with the Orders Management Console

After you have configured the initial settings for the Orders Management Console, you can load or update a test order compendium. You must import compendiums to make them available to the Orders module; the NextGen database does not contain any compendiums initially. When running the Orders Management Console, the sequence in which you process the vendors is enforced by the program. You get an error message if you try to load a vendor list before NextGen or LOINC. You can load the compendiums in the following order: NextGen LOINC Vendors (for example, Labcorp, Veredigm labs) If you have updated the NextGen compendium file, and there are no changes to the LOINC code, you update the vendor compendium. The initial load and any updates come from the Web Server URL defined in your settings. Note: The NextGen® Quality Measure Data Tool provides another way to load and update lab and radiology test compendiums into the NextGen® database. Loading and updating compendiums for a specific lab ven

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Importing Compendiums or Updates with the Orders Management Console

After you have configured the initial settings for the Orders Management Console, you can load or update a test order compendium. You must import compendiums to make them available to the Orders module; the NextGen database does not contain any compendiums initially. When running the Orders Management Console, the sequence in which you process the vendors is enforced by the program. You get an error message if you try to load a vendor list before NextGen or LOINC. You can load the compendiums in the following order: NextGen LOINC Vendors (for example, Labcorp, Veredigm labs) If you have updated the NextGen compendium file, and there are no changes to the LOINC code, you update the vendor compendium. The initial load and any updates come from the Web Server URL defined in your settings. Note: The NextGen® Quality Measure Data Tool provides another way to load and update lab and radiology test compendiums into the NextGen® database. Loading and updating compendiums for a specific lab ven

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Orders Management Console Toolbar Options for NextGen Test Compendium Updates

Buttons Function You can choose to display only the new Lab tests, only the new Radiology tests, or All new order tests in the update list. You can choose to filter the new items by: New Information only Deleted Information only Conflict information only Different information only If selected, the differences are highlighted in the compendium list and the blue arrows are activated to move through the differences. If not selected, the differences are shown as plain text. Moves through the conflicts one at a time, or moves to the first or last conflict. Moves through the differences one at a time, or moves to the first or last difference. Select this button to get information on how to edit compendium data. Save modified compendium records. Update (Save) displayed compendium records. The following example shows lab and radiology test updates and the color indicators and toolbar controls. The following columns appear in the Orders Management Console data for NextGen test compendium update

Load or Update a Test Compendium

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Orders Management Console Toolbar Options for NextGen Test Compendium Updates

Load or Update a Test Compendium

Saving Loaded Compendiums

Settings for First Time Use of the Orders Management Console

Load or Update a Test Compendium

Importing Compendiums or Updates with the Orders Management Console

Importing Compendiums or Updates with the Orders Management Console

Orders Management Console Toolbar Options for NextGen Test Compendium Updates