The NexHealth integrated Medical History form simplifies data collection by writing medical alerts directly into your practice management system.
For Athena, Cloud9, Eaglesoft, eCW, Dentrix, Dentrix Ascend, Dentrix Enterprise, Denticon, ModMed, NextGen Office, Orthotrac, and OpenDental, NexHealth generates a Medical History form at installation based on the medical conditions, allergies, and medications that are present in your practice management system.
During your initial setup, we will work with you to edit the Medical History form to suit your needs. Then, you can set up automation rules to send it to the right patients at the right time with their appointment reminders.
Once a patient has completed a medical history form in NexHealth, subsequent medical history forms will be prepopulated with the medications, allergies, and conditions previously indicated, so the patient only has to update any changes.
Medical History Form Q&A
How do I correct misspelled medications, conditions, or allergies on my medical history form?
Any misspellings of medications, medical conditions, or allergies must be corrected in your practice management system. NexHealth reads those directly from your health record system to populate the alerts, so changes must be made in your system first. Once updated, let our Support team know, and we will regenerate the form to pick up the changes.
Why are some of the medications on my medical history form greyed out?
If you encounter a medication, medical condition, or allergy that appears greyed out on your medical history form, this likely means it has been hidden and will not appear when a patient is filling out the form. If there are other alerts you would like to hide, you can either remove or inactivate them from your practice management system or request that our Support team hide them from the back end of NexHealth.
*Note: If you make changes to medical alerts in your practice management system (adding, deleting, or editing spelling and/or capitalization), please let us know so we can regenerate the form to pick up the changes.
Can I add additional questions to the medical history form?
Yes! You can add questions to the form. Depending on your health record system, answers to additional questions will display in the patient notes area, or on the PDF that syncs to the patient chart.
*Note: Eaglesoft customers must make any changes to the medical history form in Eaglesoft. We cannot edit the form in NexHealth.
If patients complete the medical history form and the office wants them to update it 6 months later, can the patient receive their existing form and make any changes to it? Or do they have to start from scratch on the form again?
Yes! Once a patient has completed a NexHealth medical history form, medical alerts will pre-fill on subsequent medical history form requests for customers using Athena, Dentrix, Dentrix Enterprise, Eaglesoft, eCW, PracticeWeb, ModMed, NextGen Office, and Open Dental. We read the data directly from your health record system and populate the alerts on the Medical History form.
Is there a way to make it so patients can answer No to unneeded alerts all at once?
Yes! By default, the each section of the medical alerts (conditions, allergies, and medications) has a Set unanswered questions to 'No' button so they can select the alerts that apply to them, and quickly respond No to all the rest.
If a patient has an allergy, condition, or takes a medication that is not on the form, can they write it in?
Yes! Each medical alert section has a place for the patient to add additional allergies, medications, or conditions that are not listed.
