NextGen Healthcare offers a Guided Implementation methodology for clients implementing their electronic health record (EHR) and practice management (PM) solutions. With Guided Implementation, NextGen Healthcare handles critical implementation tasks like building the database, providing end-user training, and performing post-live assessments and optimizations. This allows clients to focus on their medical practice while NextGen Healthcare takes responsibility for implementation activities using their expertise and best practices. Guided Implementation aims to reduce implementation risks and costs for clients through NextGen Healthcare's involvement and use of a fixed-fee model.

1. When you partner with NextGen Healthcare, you benefit
from our Implementation and Training professionals. You get
a database built to your specifications and installed while
we handle end user training, go-live support, and post-live
assessment and optimization. We do that so you
can continue to practice medicine.
NextGen Healthcare Guided Implementation
Guide. Implement. Succeed.
Let NextGen Healthcare
“guide” your successful EHR
and PM implementation.

2. Guided Implementation?
We know implementing a new healthcare information system is a
significant project. So choosing the right company as your partner
can be the difference between success and failure. That partner
should be NextGen Healthcare. Read on to learn how employing
our new Guided Implementation methodology with NextGen®
Ambulatory EHR and NextGen®
Practice Management solutions
will help your practice connect, care, and thrive.
Guided Implementation is a
methodology deployed by the
Implementation and Training
(I&T) Department. Guided
Implementation is a prescriptive
methodology based on NextGen
Healthcare Best Practices which
optimizes product rollout.

3. Eliminate risk factors.
Every implementation project has risk. Guided Implementation
improves on our current “Train the Trainer” methodology by
allowing NextGen Healthcare to accept responsibility for several
critical tasks. NextGen Healthcare will perform the database build,
full end-user training, and post-live optimization assessments;
currently these tasks are assumed by the client.
The Guided Implementation methodology substantially reduces
project risk and further promotes success. The outcome with
Guided Implementation will be a client base that is satisfied,
stable, and successful after implementation of their Electronic
Health Record (EHR) and Practice Management (PM) solutions.

4. Drive quality. Control
costs. Practice medicine.
The switch to Guided Implementation is primarily driven by the
quality it delivers. Our implementation specialists have expertise,
superior system knowledge, and resources at their disposal;
they should accept responsibility for building the system for the
client using these tools. This frees the client to concentrate on
practicing medicine.
NextGen Healthcare recognizes that clients are focused on
building and running their practices, and don’t have the resources
to run an enterprise project on this level. We have those resources
and are willing to share them with our clients.
Another aspect of Guided Implementation is that the
services are provided as a “Fixed Fee” cost to clients.
Now clients know going in there is a fixed budget based on the
scope of the project, thus fortifying the partnership between
vendor and client.
the switch
to Guided
Implementation

5. Best practices with
the client in mind.
An implementation can seem daunting, so getting it right the
first time is critical. With time and resource constraints, a client
needs to get the build done on time and on spec. NextGen
Healthcare has the resources and expertise to meet, and often
surpass, these expectations.
Clients will benefit greatly from the
Guided Implementation process because
our experts will be employing NextGen
Healthcare best practices, which are based
on thousands of successful projects.
Rather than giving a client several configuration options and
hoping they’ll choose the best one, we make the configuration
selections and build it right the first time to the client’s
requirements and business needs. Additionally, since our experts
are active throughout implementation as well as post-go live,
clients will not see a drop off in success after implementation and
go live. Instead, we are starting them on the right path faster and
building client success for the long term.
We are starting
them on the
right path faster
and building
client success
for the
long term.

6. Relieve the pain and risk.
Guided Implementation addresses the major project pain points:
over-extending client staff, subpar outcomes, and under-optimized
systems. The specific appeal of using a Fixed Fee model for the
entire scope of the project enables the client and our experts to
collaborate better, without worrying about budget fluctuations.
Bottom line: Risk can be substantially reduced, while project
outcomes can be significantly improved when NextGen Healthcare
assumes responsibility for critical aspects of EHR and PM projects.
Finally, with Guided Implementation there
is greater involvement post-go live. That
approach helps ensure that our products
are being optimized and utilization is high.
BOTTOM LINE:
RISKCAN BE SUBSTANTIALLY
REDUCED

7. Want to save time,
money, resources?
Yes, please.
We recognize that EHR/PM implementation is not a one-
size-fits-all project, and every client is different – with unique
needs, preferences, priorities, and workflows. With the Guided
Implementation methodology, client resources can concentrate
on internal tasks within the launch, such as governance and
change management.
In addition, by using our resources and expertise to build the
database, clients virtually eliminate possible rework they could
experience if they build their own database. We provide the
necessary subject matter experts to ensure successful projects.
This ability to effectively manage expectations can increase
success and client satisfaction of EHR/PM implementations.
size-fits-all project, and every client is different – with unique
needs, preferences, priorities, and workflows. With the Guided
Implementation methodology, client resources can concentrate
on internal tasks within the launch, such as governance and
In addition, by using our resources and expertise to build the
database, clients virtually eliminate possible rework they could
experience if they build their own database. We provide the
necessary subject matter experts to ensure successful projects.
This ability to effectively manage expectations can increase

8. Take the Next Step
Ready to get started? Contact us
at 1.855.510.6398 to learn more.
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Leverage our experience
For more than 20 years, and tens of thousands of installations, our
clients have benefitted from NextGen Healthcare implementation
and our ability to execute in areas most prone to risk: Database
build and set-up, training, go-live support, and post-live assessment
and optimization.
And it doesn’t end after implementation “go live.” Learn what
thousands of clients across dozens of specialties already know:
NextGen Healthcare builds, deploys, and assists post-live with
assessment, optimization, and application and clinical content
upgrades. We assume this responsibility so clients don’t need to
dedicate precious practice resources on these activities.
Instead, they are free to continue
providing superior patient care
and growing their practice.