Add a New Group

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Rights and Permissions

After you add a group to a practice, you must determine the access rights for the group to enable the users to access the NextGen® Enterprise application applicable to their roles. Rights and permissions can be given only at the group level. All users added to a group automatically inherit all the rights and permissions of the group. A user inherits the rights and permissions of all the groups to which they are added. The MODULES permission group provides the list of programs that perform a task. The MODULES permission group enables you to set specific rights for each module and in some cases components of the module. You can choose the following when setting up permissions in the MODULES group. View Add Update Delete Print The OPERATIONS permission group lists the actions or tasks that are carried out within a module by the user. The OPERATIONS permission group enables you to grant or deny rights related to some of the functions of the system by selecting the Yes or No check boxes. MO

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Users

You must set up all users before they can use the system. A user must belong to a group. Although the System Administrator application supplies you with a default enterprise, practice, group, and user, you should complete the setup of your own enterprise structure before you add users. Add Users You can create a new user in System Administrator and define properties such as the name, email password, and provider relationship. Adding Existing Users to Other Groups Add External Systems for Users LDAP and Windows Integrated Authentication Parent topic: Organizing Your Internal Structure

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Restrict Access at the Case Level

You can restrict security at the case level according to Diagnosis Category, Employer, Location, Market, Payer, Case Type, and Case Category. The kinds of items you can restrict come from the following areas: Diagnosis category master file Employer master file Location master file Case Market master list Payer master file Case Type master list Case Category master list If a case contains any of the selected items that are marked for restriction, the entire case becomes unavailable for viewing by users of the group. For example, a list of restricted locations can be maintained for each group. If it is documented that a patient's case is associated with "Community Medical Center" and Community Medical Center is set as restricted in the System Administrator, then the case is marked as private. Cases marked as private are suppressed if the case data has been designated as restricted for that user group. All of the contents of an encounter associated with a private case do not display in th

System Administrator User Guide

Add a New Group

Select a practice to add a new group. From the main menu, do one of the following: Select Edit > New Group Right-click the selected practice, then select New Group. The General tab for a new group appears on the right side of the window. In the Name field, enter the name of the new user group. If your facility requires a description, then enter a brief one for the group in the Description field. If you want to assign default NextGen® Enterprise PM User Preferences settings for all users in the group, you can select a general, location, and scheduling preferences master files. Note: If you make a selection in the PM User Prefs - Locations field and save the change, the settings of the preferences display on the Locations tab of User Maintenance for each user in the group. If you need different preferences for a user in the group, you can override the selections in these fields by making different preference selections on the user level Preferences tab. Set up rights and permissions for

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Set User Preferences Rights

You can determine whether users can change their own User Preferences in NextGen® Enterprise PM. If these rights are enabled and you apply default user preferences to the users, then the users can change the preferences. If you disable the rights, the users are restricted from making changes. Open System Administrator. Select a group. On the Rights tab, select: Under OPERATIONS > Preferences > Location, set whether the users can access the location User Preferences to set up preferred locations. If this Operations right is turned off, then the Locations menu item in NextGen® Enterprise PM (under Admin > Preferences > User) is disabled. Under OPERATIONS > Preferences > Scheduling, set whether the users can access the scheduling User Preferences. If this Operations right is turned off, then the Scheduling menu item in NextGen® Enterprise PM (under Admin > Preferences > User) is disabled. Under OPERATIONS > Preferences > User, set whether the users can access the general User Preferences.

File Maintenance Help for NextGen® Enterprise

Set User Preferences Rights

You can determine whether users can change their own User Preferences in NextGen® Enterprise PM. If these rights are enabled and you apply default user preferences to the users, then the users can change the preferences. If you disable the rights, the users are restricted from making changes. Open System Administrator. Select a group. On the Rights tab, select: Under OPERATIONS > Preferences > Location, set whether the users can access the location User Preferences to set up preferred locations. If this Operations right is turned off, then the Locations menu item in NextGen® Enterprise PM (under Admin > Preferences > User) is disabled. Under OPERATIONS > Preferences > Scheduling, set whether the users can access the scheduling User Preferences. If this Operations right is turned off, then the Scheduling menu item in NextGen® Enterprise PM (under Admin > Preferences > User) is disabled. Under OPERATIONS > Preferences > User, set whether the users can access the general User Preferences.

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