Care Plan

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Health Promotion Plan

You can document a patient's health promotion plan on the Health Promotion Plan template. You can document the following details on the Health Promotion Plan template. BMI plan Depression plan Hypertension plan Pain management plan Fall risk Screening tools and follow-up care plans Functional and Cognitive Assessment Status Health Promotion Plan You can select the information icon to open the Information Display window, which displays all the details required for successful quality reporting. For adult patients, you can document the diet, physical activity, and referral details. For patients younger than 18 years, you must document the diet and physical activity details. The Exceptions link enables you to manage the exceptions on the Exceptions/Measures template. This link appears in all panels except Functional and Cognitive Assessment Status. You can also manage the patient education resources in the Health Promotion Plan panel. Document Health Promotion Plans You can document the He

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Patient Care Plans

You can create a care plan to address patients' health concerns and monitor their progress toward resolving specific concerns. On the Care Plan template, you can do the following: Define and maintain a care plan for a patient that addresses health concerns, goals, interventions, and outcomes Record the functional and cognitive status of the patient Define, track, and review interventions by multiple providers and agencies Track the overall progress of the patient toward achieving defined goals The Care Plan template also enables you to meet the 2015 edition certification criterion, which requires a recording, changing, accessing, creating, and receiving care plan information. This information is in accordance with the structured format of the Care Plan document template in the HL7 Implementation Guide for CDR® Release 2: Consolidated CDA Templates for Clinical Notes. You can also create a Care Plan document from the Care Plan template and save the document as part of the encounter hist

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Care Plan Components

You can create a care plan to address a patient's health concerns and to monitor their progress toward resolving the identified concerns on the Care Plan template. The care plan consists of following components: Field Description Type The type of care plan Status The status of the care plan Intent The intent of the care plan Panel Description Add/Edit Health Concerns Consolidates categorized health concerns from several sources within the application Health concern categories include but are not limited to allergy, vital signs, social history, smoking and tobacco use. Patient Care Team Members Displays information about a patient's care team and enables providers to update the care team by adding modifying members Functional and Cognitive Assessment Status Enables providers to record functional and cognitive assessments for patients Goals, Interventions, and Outcomes Enables providers to define goals, identify interventions, and track outcomes for identified patient health concerns Car

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Manage Health Concerns

The first step in managing patient care is to identify and add the patient health concerns that you, as the provider, would like to address using a care plan. Prior to using the template, you must have entered health care concerns for the patient, either during the current encounter or during prior encounters. Allergies, smoking status, alcohol or drug use, family history, vital signs, and so on would appear as health concern categories on the Care Plan template. Add a Health Concern You can add a health concern to a patient's care plan from Add/Edit Health Concerns panel of the Care Plan template. Add a Health Concern Using the Other Category Update a Health Concern Remove a Health Concern Parent topic: Care Plan

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Create a Care Plan

Before you begin Make sure that the existing care plans for the patient are in Completed status. From the navigation, click Care Plan. The Care Plan template appears. Care Plan template Click Create a New Care Plan. All the panels gets activated. Activated panels on the Care Plan template Select a status, and an intent. The default values are Active, and Plan respectively. Add a health concern. Add goals to address health concern. Add interventions to achieve the goals. Record functional and cognitive assessments. Click Save and Close. Note: To edit a completed care plan, you must update the status of the current plan to Entered-in-Error, which removes the current care plan's data and redirects you to the previous care plan. Care Plan Statuses You can view or update the status of a care plan from the Status field of the Care Plan template. Parent topic: Patient Care Plans

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Document Functional and Cognitive Assessments

You can document a patient's functional and cognitive assessments in the Functional and Cognitive Assessment Status panel. The data entered in the Functional and Cognitive Assessment Status panel is shared with the Health Promotion Plan, Medicare Preventive HPI, Screening Summary, and Care Plan templates to measure compliance and for surveillance reporting. Open NextGen® Enterprise EHR. Open the Intake template. Expand the Vital Signs panel, and then select the Health Promotion Plan link. The Health Promotion Plan template opens. Expand the Functional and Cognitive Assessment Status panel. Functional and Cognitive Assessment Status For Functional Status and Cognitive Status, do the following: If there is no change in the functional status of the patient, select No Change. If there is a change in the functional status or cognitive status of the patient, select Change. Select the Status field, and select the appropriate option from the list. Enter the assessment method and used method. T

Care Plan

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Health Promotion Plan

Patient Care Plans

Care Plan Components

Manage Health Concerns

Create a Care Plan

Document Functional and Cognitive Assessments

Care Plan

Health Promotion Plan

Patient Care Plans

Care Plan Components

Manage Health Concerns

Create a Care Plan

Document Functional and Cognitive Assessments