NextGen’s Knowledge Base Model for Orthopedics
NextGen’s Knowledge Base Model for Orthopedics is a comprehensive and extremely flexible set of templates, documents and configuration settings that addresses the needs of orthopedists and orthopedic workflows.

The templates contain the content and context you see in your practice. You won’t see cardiology testing in this Knowledge Base Model. You won’t see pediatric weight charts or mammography screenings. You will see orthopedic assessment templates, knee aspiration procedures, range of motion charting, hip replacements, physical therapy requests, cast application documenting and much, much more. You will see the things you see in your practice on a daily basis. The results will be comprehensive, discrete, searchable data that will be the basis of reports, documents, coding, billing, and much more.

Within the templates, triggers maximize efficiency by opening appropriate picklists, generating alerts, or adjusting the workflow – all customized for orthopedics. And with an open architecture, the flexible templates can easily be set up to exactly suit your preferences, tendencies, and methods.

NextGen EMR’s interfaces to labs, hospitals, pharmacies, rehabilitation centers and PACS
NextGen EMR interfaces with labs through its Lab Order Entry andResults Reporting Module, delivering electronic orders directly to labs and reducing the time and costs associated with standard labs orders and receipt of results. This powerful feature also allows you to review authorization and facility “rules” by payer. It can alert you when results are received and tracks labs by patient, order date, provider and more.

Through NextGen EMR’s e-prescribing capabilities, providers interface with pharmacies and are no longer writing prescriptions. With a couple of clicks, you have routed the script straight to the patient’s pharmacy. Refill requests are electronically routed into the EMR for easy record research and approval from providers. All transactions are duly noted within the patient’s electronic chart.

And PACS images can be viewed directly through the EMR within any template you choose to set up. One button will search the appropriate patient’s records within your PACS and display the desired image.

You need customized/remote access for your staff
Orthopedists need full access to patient charts from anywhere, including home, the hospital, a rehab clinic, or another of their practice locations. Nurses may need access at the same time for additional documentation or order fulfillment. Your front office needs the same chart for appointments or billing. You need to keep staff access to each portion of information controlled and limited.

NextGen’s user roles and secure access
NextGen allows your system administrator to create specific user roles and access levels. Nurses will see charts but not financial reports. The front office will see demographic and insurance information but not prescriptions, as you determine. Your colleagues can get access to cover your patients. Information is controlled and secure and your processes attain HIPAA compliance.

NextGen’s EMR and EPM are also accessible remotely via browser through secure, virtual private networks and terminal services. You can get to your data anytime, anywhere, and make the right decisions based on the most complete information.

You need image management
Images are a critical piece of your clinical workflow. You need the proper creation, manipulation and storage capabilities, and they need to be fully searchable and integrated with the appropriate patient’s electronic record.

NextGen EMR’s image management component
NextGen EMR’s image-capture program stores digital or scanned images within a patient’s electronic chart and catalogues it by patient, date and title. Once imported, users can access all image-related information quickly—one click allows review of x-rays, photos, drawings and more.

NextGen EMR allows users to work with scanned documents, line drawings, clinical photographs and many other types of images.

The EMR supports dozens of image formats, and users can open existing images and modify, illustrate and save them to a patient's history.

An images toolbar, similar to those in major graphical programs, provides a large selection of options to illustrate or modify images. Users may add text, provide color, draw freehand, rotate or resize images, and much more.

You need clinical documentation features
Documentation through orthopedic templates will be great, but if you also had features that knew how to classify and code for you, and allowed you to dictate where you needed to, you would save a lot of time.

NextGen EMR’s orthopedic-specific documentation features
In addition to the rich library of templates to handle all of your documentation needs, additional features within NextGen EMR go even further, providing documentation you would normally have to research, calculate, or manually enter

These include:
	The A.O. Fracture Classification System, which allows you to select a fracture type by location, morphology and severity from more than 200 uniquely identifiable fractures.
	The built-in Harris Hip Score, which automatically determines medical necessity for hip replacements, eliminating manual, time-consuming calculations.
	Automatic calculation of HCPCS codes, enabling you to bill electronically for non-CPT items, such as casting materials.
	Transcription capabilities that allow users to dictate and/or target transcribed dictation directly into specific fields of a patient’s chart, providing documentation flexibility for users as required or preferred.