Add Therapy Goals Manually

NextGen® Therapy Suite Help 30.3.13.0

Add Therapy Goals Manually

You can manually add each goal. Note: Alternatively, you can quickly add standard goals by using QuickPicks. See QuickPicks. If you do not want to use picklists to enter goal details, you can turn them off in the Practice Config practice template in the Legacy Picklist Functionality setting of the Goals panel. Open the NTS Therapy Goals template. Enter all the details that are required for saving the goal: In the Type field, select the type of goal. Enter the Goal and Function. Enter the total number of weeks the patient is expected to achieve the goal. If necessary, in Response to Treatment, document the patient’s treatment response for the goal. For example, you could enter the treatment response as the percentage of goal completion. In Status, you can select the status of the goal or leave the field blank. For example, you can capture the patient’s current status towards achieving the goal or the status when the patient was initially transferred mid-treatment to the practice. To sav

NextGen® Therapy Suite Help 30.3.13.0

Update a Goal

You can change the content of any goal, including expired goals. For example, you can extend the length of the goal or change the goal or function. Open the NTS Therapy Goals template. Select a goal from the Goals grid.The goal details appear in the fields above the Goals grid and the Update button becomes available. Goal selected in the NTS Therapy Goals template Change the necessary goal details.If you change the Weeks, enter the updated total number of weeks. For example, if the original number of weeks to achieve the goal was 4, but now you want to add another 2 weeks, then you would enter 6. To save the changes, select Update. Note: If you select Add, you will create a separate goal with the details instead of updating the goal. Parent topic: Goals Parent topic: Goals

NextGen® Therapy Suite Help 30.3.13.0

Archive Goals

Before you begin To archive goals, you must select Enabled for the Archive Goals setting on the NTS Practice Settings practice template. For more information, go to NextGen Healthcare Success Community, and download the latest Configuration Guide for NextGen® Therapy Suite. You can archive an active goal, for example, if the goal is no longer applicable to the patient's case. Note: Once a goal is archived, you cannot edit it unless you restore it. On the NTS Therapy Goals template, select a goal in the Goals grid. The goal details appear in the corresponding fields. Select the Archive Goal checkbox. On the template, a message appears that notifies you that to archive a goal, you must update the status. Archive Goal checkbox selected on NTS Therapy Goal template Select a status, and then select Update. The goal no longer appears in the Goals grid when the filter is set to Active. To see the archived goal, set the grid filter to Archived or All. In the Status column for all archived goal

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Open the Therapy Goal Template

To add or update any goals you must open the Therapy Goal template. Expand the Plan panel. Under the Goals grid, select Edit. The NTS Therapy Goals template opens. The Goals grid displays all goals entered for the patient. The Goal Progression/History grid shows the history of updates made to a goal selected from the Goals grid. Parent topic: Goals Parent topic: Goals

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Review, Modify, and Copy Comments

You can review comments entered in all sections of the patient’s chart, including those captured during previous therapy encounters with the patient. Depending on your configuration, this also includes mobile dictation comments created in NextGen® Mobile. You can then improve your documentation efficiency by copying SOAP (Subjective, Objective, Assessment, and Plan) comments from previous encounters, including sessions dictated with NextGen® Mobile, into the current encounter. You can copy previous comments from any template that allows you to edit the SOAP comments field. Open the NTS SOAP Comments template by doing any of the following: Open a Single Visit template, and then select the Get Data button at the top of the template. Open a Single Visit template, expand the appropriate panel, and then select the Review Comments link above the SOAP (Subjective, Objective, Assessment, and Plan) comment field. Open the NTS Therapy Goals template, and then select the Review Comments link. The

NextGen® Therapy Suite Help 30.3.13.0

Open the Therapy Goal Template

You can add or update speech therapy goals on the Therapy Goal template. On the Speech Single Visit template, expand the Objective panel. Under the Goals grid, select Edit. The NTS Therapy Goals template opens. The Goals grid displays all goals entered for the patient. The Goal Progression/History grid shows the history of updates made to a goal selected from the Goals grid. Therapy Goal template Parent topic: Goals

Add Therapy Goals Manually

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Add Therapy Goals Manually

Update a Goal

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Review, Modify, and Copy Comments

Open the Therapy Goal Template

Add Therapy Goals Manually

Update a Goal

Archive Goals

Open the Therapy Goal Template

Review, Modify, and Copy Comments

Open the Therapy Goal Template