What Is NextGen EHR?
NextGen Healthcare is a leading healthcare software and services company that empowers the transformation of ambulatory care. Our smart, electronic health record solutions - NextGen Office (1-10 physicians) and NextGen Enterprise (10+ physicians) - help ambulatory practices alleviate the burden of documentation, advance clinical outcomes, connect with other health systems, elevate provider and patient satisfaction, streamline the revenue cycle, and foster healthier communities.
NextGen Office is bringing cutting-edge technology to your workflows with NextGen Office Ambient Assist. When providers use NextGen Office Ambient Assist, integrated ambient listening technology securely converts the spoken, natural patient-provider conversation into a structured SOAP note that can be reviewed and edited by providers and automatically integrated into the patient's chart in NextGen Office.
In addition to its EHR capabilities, NextGen Office integrates state-of-the-art Practice Management (PM) functionalities that enable healthcare practices to capture their true revenue potential. The award-winning PM solution offers a user-friendly interface that is loved by clients and designed to meet today's complex billing challenges. Through its features such as registration and scheduling, coding, billing, and collections, NextGen Office simplifies billing processes, accelerates reimbursements, and helps practices navigate the intricacies of revenue cycle management effectively.
Furthermore, NextGen Office's commitment to value-based care and population health management is evident through its innovative solutions designed to help practices better manage patient populations while adapting to the transition from fee-for-service to value-based payment programs. By leveraging health analytics and population health tools, healthcare providers can make informed decisions and ensure that their practice remains compliant with evolving regulatory reporting requirements.
The NextGen Office ecosystem also places a strong emphasis on patient experience, offering easy-to-use solutions that enhance clinical workflows, improve operational outcomes, and facilitate effective patient communications. This patient-centric approach includes features such as patient self-scheduling, patient portal, and patient reported outcomes, all aimed at enhancing patient engagement, loyalty, and satisfaction.
In line with the evolving landscape of healthcare technology, NextGen Office prioritizes interoperability, offering secure, scalable, and cost-effective solutions to overcome barriers to data exchange and support vital patient data sharing among healthcare partners. By ensuring interoperability and contributing to improved clinical outcomes through data aggregation and analytics, NextGen Office helps healthcare providers deliver better coordinated and comprehensive care.
How To Use NextGen EHR?
NextGen offers its users comprehensive training videos and options to familiarize doctors with the EHR Software. This includes Web-based training modules, Hands-on exercises using training database and support led sessions to help you with the module you need the most. What's made operating the EMR/EHR more efficient is the AI-based NextGen Ambient Assist.
Ambient Assist helps providers focus more on patient care while leaving the miscellaneous tasks to the AI-assistant making healthcare faster and more efficient for your organization. NextGen have promised that their AI Assistant will help reduce documentation time by 2 hours for providers. It currently provides the following uses (more incoming as we speak):
- Generate SOAP notes automatically from patient-provider conversations
- Summarize appointments and document care plans in real-time
- Provide AI-generated notes within 30 seconds of a completed patient encounter
- Integrate directly into the NextGen EHR without requiring copy-pasting
Why Choose NextGen?
Now more than 124,000 providers across the United States use solutions provided by NextGen Healthcare. The following are just some of the reasons we highly recommend you consider NextGen as your medical software solution:
Intuitive Clinical Workflows
NextGen EHR is designed specifically for ambulatory practices, offering built-in clinical workflows that align with your needs. These workflows help streamline documentation, order tracking, and reimbursement processes, reducing paperwork and improving efficiency.
Advanced AI Capabilities
NextGen has recently introduced AI-powered features to enhance clinical workflows:
- Ambient Assist: This flagship AI tool uses ambient listening technology to automatically generate SOAP notes from patient-provider conversations, summarize appointments, and document care plans in real-time.
- The AI-generated notes are available within 30 seconds of a completed patient encounter and integrate directly into the NextGen EHR without requiring copy-pasting.
- Ambient Assist has shown to reduce documentation time by 1.5-2 hours per day for providers, with over 90% accuracy.
Comprehensive Reporting And Analytics
NextGen's reporting and analytic functions provide real-time insights into your practice, patients, and finances. This feature helps you:
- Identify trends and potential issues early
- Support quality reporting for programs like Medicare Quality Payment Program (QPP)
- Track and improve quality measures, potentially increasing revenue and enhancing patient care
Schedule a free
NextGen EHR demo for a quick visual walkthrough into the software’s functionalities.