Ophthalmology Home Templates and Tabbed Template Sets

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Opening the Ophthalmology Home Template

If you haven't selected a default medical records template, you can use Template icon on the History Toolbar to open the Ophthalmology Home Page - OPH template you wish to use by selecting it from the list of medical records templates. home page - oph For users that work within a single specialty, you can set a preferred medical records template to open by default when a patient chart is opened and a new encounter is created. For users that work with more than one specialty, you can select a list of preferred templates to use as a starting point in Preferences. Open an Ophthalmology Home Template Parent topic: Ophthalmology Home Templates

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Ophthalmology ASC Home Template

The ASC Home – OPH (eyeasc_homescreen) template is the Home page starting template for the Ophthalmology Ambulatory Surgical Center (ASC) template set only. When using this template, you are taken to an Ophthalmology 10-tab template set that is used to document a surgical encounter, beginning with pre-procedure calls to the patient to patient arrival and pre-operative nursing, to the actual OR record, post-operative nursing care and patient discharge. The following shows the ASC Home - OPH template, which appears as the Home tab of the Ophthalmology ASC tabbed template set. To open automatically when you create a new encounter, you can configure eyeasc_homescreen as a default template in Preferences. asc home - oph template Open the Ophthalmology ASC Home Template Using Template Launcher Parent topic: Ophthalmology Home Templates and Tabbed Template Sets

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Ophthalmology Home Templates

Ophthalmology Home Templates Ophthalmology Home Templates Ophthalmology has three Home templates to choose as a starting point for documenting an encounter. For General and Retina Ophthalmology, there are two choices: Home Page – OPH template (oph_home_page) which uses the newer framework-based tabbed encounter workflow (This is the preferred workflow.) Home – OPH template (eyemaster_im) which uses the original 10–tab encounter workflow If the Retina provider has not been designated as such in the Eye Configuration practice template, or if a generalist wants to use the Retina workflow for a particular patient, then the Use retina workflow for this encounter check box should be selected when using 10-tab workflow. Note: In this version of NextGen® Adaptive Content Engine, the Home – OPH template (eyemaster_im) and the original 10–tab encounter workflow can still be used, but this is not the preferred workflow. Ophthalmology Ambulatory Surgical Center (ASC) continues to use the ASC Home

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Open the Ophthalmology ASC Home Template Using Template Launcher

Click the Templates icon in the History toolbar. The Select Templates window opens. On the Medical Records tab, double-click ASC Home - OPH in the list of templates. asc home - oph template The ASC Home - OPH template opens and the Ophthalmology ASC tabbed template set appears. Parent topic: Ophthalmology ASC Home Template

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Ophthalmology Ambulatory Surgical Center Setup

In this version of NextGen® Adaptive Content Engine, the Ophthalmology ASC templates remain the familiar 10-tab template set as in previous versions. Open this template set by selecting ASC Home – OPH listed in Template Launcher in the History toolbar or configured as a preferred medical records template in Preferences on the Template tab. To use the Ophthalmology ASC workflow, for billing purposes and to meet certain regulatory requirements that clinical records for an Ambulatory Surgical Center (ASC) be kept separate from a clinic, certain configuration prerequisites must be performed in File Maintenance. This includes setting up the ASC as a separate practice and configuring this Ambulatory Surgical Center as the rendering provider. When documenting an Ophthalmology ASC encounter, the ASC Center is selected as both the Practice and the Provider. Setup for Ophthalmology ASC in File Maintenance Billing for an Ambulatory Surgical Center Parent topic: Configuring NextGen Ophthalmic Suit

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Ophthalmology Setup for Documenting Encounters

Before the NextGen® Adaptive Content Engine for Ophthalmology can be used in a clinical setting with patients, individuals responsible for setting up and maintaining the system have to review and configure specialty-specific functionalities and content for Ophthalmology. Since Ophthalmology templates compromise of three different template sets , it is important to know which Home template to use and how to open it. For clients using the Ophthalmology Ambulatory Surgical Center (ASC) templates, there are additional steps for setting up a practice as an Ambulatory Surgical Center. Note: This version of NextGen® Adaptive Content Engine includes both the newer framework-based tabbed Ophthalmology templates and the templates for the 10-tab workflow used in previous versions of NextGen® Adaptive Content Engine, which have been revised to meet Meaningful Use requirements. In this version of NextGen® Adaptive Content Engine, either workflow can be used for 2014 Meaningful Use reporting. It is

Ophthalmology Home Templates and Tabbed Template Sets

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Opening the Ophthalmology Home Template

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