The NexHealth iOS app is available for the iPhone and iPad.
The iPad app features your daily schedule, enables you to send forms to patients, and can function as a Kiosk for patients to checkin and complete forms independently.
Download the iPad app
1. Open the App Store on your iPad.
2. Search NexHealth.
3. Select the app and tap Get.
3. Once the app is downloaded, Log in to your NexHealth account using your regular username and password.
4. Choose a passcode which will be used to lock certain features of the iPad from patients if you decide to use your iPad for patient facing form filling.
*Note: The NexHealth app is only available in the US and Canada for iOS.
Set up Kiosk mode
1. Make sure you are running the latest version of the app.
2. Login using your regular NexHealth credentials.
3. Select Kiosk Mode from the bottom center of the iPad app
4. Click on Launch Kiosk Mode.
5. Leave the iPad on the counter or stand for patients to encounter as they arrive, or hand the iPad to the patient to check in.
6. Patients click on Check in and then select their name from the list of the day's appointments.
7. Patients confirm their birthdate and click Check in.
8. The appointment is marked as checked-in in NexHealth and in your health record system (for Denticon, Dentrix, Dentrix Enterprise, Eaglesoft, NextGen Office, and OpenDental).
9. Patients are prompted to complete any outstanding forms, and given the option to complete them on the iPad or send them to their smartphone to complete in the waiting room.
Complete forms on the iPad
You can choose patients from your schedule or create new patients on the spot and have them fill in forms directly on the iPad.
1. Choose a patient from the schedule, search, or create a new patient
2. Select the forms you'd like the patient to complete
3. Select start forms
4. Hand the iPad to the patient and they can fill in the forms by clicking continue
5. During the form filling experience you can cancel or skip a form at any time using the respective buttons.
6. You will be prompted to input the app code before exiting the form.
Sign and sync treatment plans via NexHealth
With the NexHealth app on the iPad, you can send treatment plans to patients in real-time, and have them sign the plan in-office. Then, have the plan automatically upload to the document center of your health record system.
1. Download the Enlive desktop app on the same computer where you access your practice management system. Be sure to select your practice management system when prompted. This allows NexHealth to connect the iPad app to the treatment plan in your health record system.
2. Log in to the Enlive desktop app using your NexHealth credentials.
3. On the NexHealth iPad app, search and select your patient using the search bar at the top.
4. In your health record system, open the treatment plan and choose Print.
5. One of the options should be a printer named Enlive Print to iPad. This is a digital “print” that sends the treatment plan to the iPad.
6. Click OK.
7. A second pop-up asks you to confirm the iPad you want it to be sent to. This is helpful if you have multiple iPads in the office. Select the iPad.
8. This opens the form on the iPad for the patient with a box for signature.
9. Have the patient and provider sign the treatment plan on the iPad.
10. Finally, you will be presented with two options on screen:
View & Email Completed Documents -- allows you to review and send a copy to the patient.
All Done -- sends the form to your health record system.
11. Select All Done, and the treatment plan will appear in the patient's chart.