Optimizing Ambulatory Practices:

How NextGen Healthcare is Leveraging MAKE Solutions’ TransIT


Challenges Faced by Ambulatory Practices

Ambulatory healthcare practices face numerous challenges in maintaining operational efficiency and supporting their electronic medical record (EMR).  Common struggles include varying provider documentation practices, undocumented workflows, and fragmented system design.  These issues are often further compounded by high staff turnover, leading to a loss of institutional knowledge, making it difficult to train new staff and maintain effective super-user programs.  NextGen Healthcare’s clients are no different.

The TransIT solution quicky addresses some longstanding workflow challenges our clients face.”

 -  -Bruce Wilson, Sr. Director, Implementations, NextGen Healthcare

NextGen Healthcare, an award-winning EHR system, recognized their clients struggled with:

  • Inconsistency in documentation practices across providers and practices.
  • Lack of standardization in system design and usage.
  • Decentralized workflows stored in multiple locations (when documented).
  • Frustration stemming from misaligned practice workflows with system design, implementation, and training.
  • Inefficiencies in tracking workflows.
  • Minimal to no testing processes.
  • Delayed system updates and implementations.
  • Limited training materials and education standards for new staff.
  • To address these pain points and improve their client’s outcomes, NextGen Healthcare identified the need for a robust yet simple solution to streamline processes and improve outcomes.

    Why MAKE Solutions and TransIT?

    NextGen Healthcare sought a partner who could provide an affordable, user-friendly, and scalable solution.  MAKE Solutions was the ideal choice with its TransIT tool, a proven system that offered comprehensive functionality to address multiple implementation and operational challenges effectively.

    MAKE’s TransIT tool provided NextGen and their clients:

    • A centralized solution providing the ability to simplify and improve client implementations.
    • Ease of use, enabling rapid adoption across practices.
    • Scalability, allowing seamless expansion of access and increased usage.
    • Demonstrated value extending beyond NextGen Healthcare implementations to support a practice’s daily operational management needs.

    TransIT’s impact was backed by its established track record with MAKE clients’ experiencing:

    • 36% reduction in testing and training days.
    • 50% reduction in time spent creating, maintaining, and locating workflows and validation materials.
    • 50% reduction in effort spent creating training materials.

    How TransIT Addresses the Challenges

    TransIT provides NextGen Healthcare and their clients with a versatile tool and process framework to overcome their challenges.  Key functionalities include:
    • Workflow Organization and Review: Centralized development, storage, and review of workflows, streamlining the process for all stakeholders.
    • Test Script Management: Efficient creation, maintenance, and execution of test scripts directly tied to workflows.
    • Workflow and System Testing: Comprehensive testing and tracking of the system functionality and integrated workflow processes to identify issues early and reduce inefficiencies.
    • Competency Training and Tracking: Quick conversion of workflows into training materials, enhancing staff competency.
    • Change Control and Documentation: A robust framework for tracking and approving system changes, ensuring transparency and governance.
    With TransIT, NextGen Healthcare's clients will experience significant improvements, including:
    • Enhanced, standardized practice workflows and more efficient workflow validation.
    • Early identification and elimination of workflow and system issues.
    • Streamlined documentation and tracking of customizations and localizations.
    • Improved project timelines and reduced effort, minimizing delays, rework, and support needs.
    • Quicker onboarding and training for new staff.

    The Transformative Impact of TransIT

    By integrating TransIT into their operations, NextGen Healthcare's clients realize immediate and substantial benefits, including:

    • Accelerated Implementations: Practices can review, tailor, and localize workflows without waiting for technical installation steps.
    • Governance and Consistency: Centralized workflows with approval processes to drive standardization and consistency across practices.
    • Improved Training Efficiency: Seamless conversion of workflows into test scripts and learning guides reducing training efforts.
    • Streamlined Change Requests: Practices benefit from a centralized location for internal system change requests and tracking.

    Partnering into the Future

    NextGen Healthcare’s partnership with MAKE Solutions and the adoption of the TransIT tool transforms how ambulatory healthcare practices implement, maintain, and optimize their NextGen system; and provides a tool that can support other operational management and planning needs.  

    By standardizing workflows, streamlining testing, managing changes, and enhancing training, TransIT reduces costs, accelerates project timelines, and improves client satisfaction. Together, NextGen Healthcare and MAKE Solutions are empowering healthcare practices to achieve long-term sustained operational excellence.

    The MAKE partnership and TransIT solution combined are a force multiplier to driving better project outcomes and value creation associated with NGE solutions.”

     -  Bruce Wilson, Sr. Director, Implementations, NextGen Healthcare

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