Why I Blog about NextGen EMR

For the past four years, I have been developing templates for NextGen clients all over the country. Template editing is a passion of mine; I've enjoyed learning the NextGen application and using the template editor to create templates that are being used by doctors today. NextGen has done a tremendous job giving their clients the power to improve and modify their current EMR environment, but developing NextGen templates can be a frustrating and time-consuming process. Once you understand all the features and functionality, and the way it communicates and works with the NextGen database, template development can become an art. It takes a deep understanding of programming fundamentals, user-interface design and intuition, and an understanding of the workflow of a medical facility to develop efficient and powerful EMR templates that can be easily used by office staff and medical providers. Template development is definitely not for everyone, a background in programming fundamentals (mainly, knowing when and how to use conditions, parameters, etc.) and SQL development is invaluable as the new working KBMs are released and more and more templates are dependent on stored procedures.

I encourage everyone with a desire to learn template editing to read my blogs, post comments, and use the NextGen user-groups as in excellent source for support. EMR Template Experts is probably the most powerful team of NextGen EMR experts in the NextGen consulting community, and we would be more than happy to help you and your medical practice with your EMR needs.

The purpose of my blogs are to provide a basic level of understanding of how to navigate and use the NextGen template editor. I will be going over all the icons in the toolbar, some good tips to know while developing, and some simple triggers that I use often. At this point I don't plan to blog on more in-depth and complicated subjects for the template editor because most people find that for most of their in-depth template development, an experienced NextGen certified professional template developer is better to customize their templates.