NextGen Healthcare EHR

Formerly MediTouch EHR

The software checks a patient’s insurance and benefits eligibility and tracks co-pay and deductible information.

This includes claim scrubbing, electronic claim submission, and automated claim tracking.

The software helps users find the correct codes – whether ICD-9 or ICD-10 – for claims.

The software can generate statements, send them to patients via mail or email, and process payments.

Reports and dashboards allow users to understand the financial health of a practice.

The software sets schedules based on a set of rules or criteria that account for various institutional and individual needs.

Patients receive automated reminders via text, phone or email in advance of appointments to help decrease the number of no-shows.

The software streamlines the check-in process, with features like co-pay notification, digital ID photos, insurance card scanning, waiting time updates, and self-check-in kiosks.

The software can coordinate scheduling across multiple locations, facilities or practitioners.

The software provides a user-friendly calendar from which users can track and schedule appointments.

Practitioners can easily create a patient record, take notes, update patient information, and understand a patient’s history at a glance.

The EMR software includes pre-built and customizable templates to allow for easy, standardized organization of clinical data and notes.

Patients can access important personal health information, such as medications, allergies and lab results, online through a secure website.

The software is accessible via mobile or tablet devices.

This facilitates the sharing of information with other providers, and storing and distribution of documents.

The software can integrate with EMR and PM software to allow practitioners to coordinate care with other providers such as hospitals or specialists.

The software allows practitioners to take action directly from a patient’s chart, such as prescribing a medication, ordering a lab test, or requesting a follow-up appointment.

The software integrates with the speech-recognition capabilities of Dragon software, allowing practitioners to take notes verbally.

Users can tailor the software to best fit their practices or discipline, through features like custom fields, medical forms, chart templates, and/or macro buttons.

Practitioners can write and send prescriptions electronically, as well as approve or deny renewal requests.

The software helps providers comply with the privacy standards established by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).

Users have different permission levels based on their roles to protect patient privacy.

The software helps ensure against data loss.

The software provides a way to ensure that network or connectivity issues are not a work-stopping event.

Users can monitor staff productivity and accountability.

The software accounts for different workflow options based on discipline or specialty.

The software can manage and coordinate multi-office or multi-physician instances.