Review, Modify, and Copy Comments

NextGen® Therapy Suite Help 30.3.13.0

Integrating NextGen® Mobile Comments into NextGen Therapy Suite

If you use NextGen® Mobile to dictate your therapy session, the details from the NGMobileDictation template are automatically added to the subjective, objective, assessment, and plan (SOAP) comment fields in the relevant Single Visit template. Mobile Field in NGMobileDictation template Corresponding Comment Type in NextGen® Therapy Suite HPI Subjective Physical Exam Objective Assessment Comment Plan Plan The dictation appears in the following NextGen® Therapy Suite templates and documents: NTS Single Visit template for PT/OT NTS Chiro Single Visit template NTS Speech Single Visit template NTS AUD Single Visit template NTS Subjective Review template NTS Objective Review template NTS Rapid Flowsheet template Clinical and APSO documents Parent topic: Comments

NextGen® Therapy Suite Help 30.3.13.0

Comments

Most panels of the Single Visit templates have a Comments field. Use the Comments fields to record things such as observations, interpretations, additional information, instructions and plans that do not have discrete data fields in that section. Comments fields typically have a 1000-character limit, and a character counter below the field. Comments (Subjective) field Integrating NextGen Mobile Comments into NextGen Therapy Suite Information you dictate in your therapy session appears in NextGen® Therapy Suite. Add Comments Review, Modify, and Copy Comments You can review the comments from a patient's current and previous encounters. You can improve your documentation efficiency by copying comments from previous therapy sessions into the current encounter. Your practice must be configured to allow copying previous comments. Parent topic: Navigation and Documentation Shortcuts

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Configure the Ability to Copy Comments Forward

For specified visit sets, you can allow therapists to copy forward SOAP (Subjective, Objective, Assessment, and Plan) comments, including comments captured from NextGen® Mobile, to the current encounter. Users can copy comments into the Single Visit templates and into the NTS Soap Comments template. Open the NTS Practice Config template, and then scroll to the Review Comments/NG Mobile section. Do one of the following: To create a configuration, select the field below the Visit Set column, and then select a visit set from the list. To modify a configuration, select a visit set in the grid. To allow users in the visit set to copy SOAP comments from past encounters to the current encounter, select Yes for Review Comments Copy Forward. The Get Data button becomes available on all Single Visit templates. Optional: If your practice uses NextGen® Mobile, select Yes for Mobile. This option adds the text "NG Mobile Dictation" to applicable labels on the Single Visit and NTS SOAP Comments templ

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Add SOAP Comments to the Rapid Flowsheet

In the Rapid Flowsheet template, you can enter SOAP (Subjective, Objective, Assessment, and Plan) comments for a patient's treatment by typing them and by using saved template entries (My Phrases text). You can also review comments from previous encounters and copy them to today’s visit. To save time, you can enter these comments in advance of an appointment with a Booked status. Open the NTS Rapid Flowsheet Worklog template, and then select an appointment row in the grid. The Rapid Flowsheet template opens. The patient’s name, sex, and birthdate appear in the panel headers. Expand the Additional Comments panel to view the SOAP comments fields. Manually enter the comments. To insert saved template entries at the end of any text already in the field, select My Phrases, select a phrase from the list, and then select OK. To append more phrases, select My Phrases again. Note: Although you cannot add or edit saved phrases in the list, you can edit them after you insert them in the comments

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Documenting SOAP Clinical Notes

In Today's Visit in Patient Chart, you can select Dictate to document and complete clinical notes. In Subjective, Objective, Assessment, and Plan (SOAP) Notes, you can dictate your notes using a microphone, add blocks of text with documentation accelerators like Copy Forward or Macros, or enter and edit notes using a keyboard. On completing the SOAP notes, you can send the notes to NextGen® Enterprise EHR. Today's visit view You can use SOAP Settings to modify your SOAP sections in SOAP Note. Copy forward button Note: If the device is offline while searching for the past encounter dictation text, a message appears indicating that the device is offline, connect to the internet and try again. The Histories and Previous Diagnostics status depends on the following NextGen® Enterprise EHR versions: NextGen® Enterprise EHR Version Status in NextGen® Mobile 5.9.3 and later Not available 5.9.4 to 6.0.0 Turned off 6.1.0 Turned on When you select and dictate, NextGen® Speech-to-Text (STT) conver

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Review and Update Mobile Dictation Data

You can review and update the mobile dictation data documented and sent to NextGen® Enterprise EHR through NextGen® Ambient Assist or any dictation software, such as NextGen® Mobile, NextGen® Direct-to-Desktop, or other third-party solutions. Open NextGen® Enterprise EHR. To open the Select Template window, do one of the following: From the Encounters or Categories tab, select Open Template. From the top toolbar, select Templates . Select File > New > Template. From the Medical Records tab, select All, and then select NGMobileDictation.The NGMobileDictation template opens. Note: If you have configured the NGMoble Dictation – Copy template, you can also open it to review and update the dictation data. To review and update the dictation data, do any of the following: To copy information from a previous encounter to the current encounter, select Copy Dictation. To document saved phrases in the respective fields, select My Phrases. Manually enter your narratives in each field. Optional: If

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