The ability to send and receive electronic faxes in the NextGen cloud based EHR is one of the many reasons why it's earned the reputation as the best EHR! Despite the fact that NextGen Office has electronic connections to over 200 labs and imaging centers faxing paper is still an option for many facilities.
Benefits
- Save staff time and avoid paper faxing and scanning
- Upload patient’s entire medical history (up to 50 pages at one time)
- Split files (up to 50 pages) into smaller documents
- Markup and electronically add signatures to documents
- Send tasks to care team members for review
Manage received Documents:
You can quickly and easily sort received faxes by keyword, date, source etc. You have a broad range of additional options for received faxes in NextGen Office that improve the workflow and save provider time:
- Associate a fax with a patient's chart
- Link it to an encounter
- Link to an order
- Display the fax on the patient portal
- Route the fax to a provider for review and approval
page viewer tool
Use the powerful tools in the Page Viewer to annotate and sign documents, add to a Work List and associate to a patient's chart
Practices can fax from multiple different areas of the program and patient's chart:
Documents Section:
The documents section is where letters, referrals, insurance cards, and virtually any type of miscellaneous documents are stored. With the simple click of a button these can be faxed.
Fax an Order REQUISITION (for those cases where we can't send the order electronically)
Fax Encounter Notes - Right from the Encounter or from the Patient's Chart