NextGen Healthcare
Connecting your NextGen Healthcare system to Knack Flows allows you to securely send data from NextGen to your Knack apps.
What You'll Learn
This article explains how to connect NextGen Healthcare to Knack Flows by granting access through your NextGen system, and covers every NextGen Healthcare action available once the connection is set up. NextGen Healthcare is an ambulatory EHR and practice management platform, so this connector is built for practices and health tech teams that need to pull patient and encounter data into their Knack apps.
About NextGen Healthcare
NextGen Healthcare is a cloud-based electronic health record (EHR) and practice management platform for ambulatory and outpatient practices. It exposes patient and clinical data through FHIR-based APIs, letting outside applications read practice data through standardized, certified endpoints instead of proprietary formats. Connecting NextGen Healthcare to Knack Flows lets you pull this patient and encounter data into your Knack app without a staff member looking it up manually.
Setting Up the NextGen Healthcare Connection
To set up your NextGen Healthcare connection, you'll need to grant access to Knack's technology partner within your NextGen Healthcare system.
- Select the Grant Access button.
- If you aren't already logged in, you'll be prompted to log in and authenticate with your system.
- Once authentication is complete, your NextGen Healthcare connection is ready and you can set up your Flow.
NextGen Healthcare Actions
NextGen Healthcare has no triggers, only actions, since it's a read-focused interoperability API rather than an event-driven system. You can find full technical detail in NextGen Healthcare's API Documentation.
| Action | Summary |
|---|---|
| Find Patient | Searches for a patient using identifying details like name or date of birth. Use this when you don't have a patient ID yet and need to locate the matching patient record first. |
| Get Encounter Details by Encounter ID | Retrieves the full details for one specific encounter using its encounter ID. Use this when you already know which visit you need information on. |
| Get Encounters by Patient ID | Retrieves a patient's encounters, such as office visits, using their patient ID. Use this when you need a patient's visit history and already know their patient ID. |
| Get Patient by ID | Retrieves the full record for a specific patient using their patient ID. Use this when a Flow needs to pull a patient's information into Knack and you already have their ID. |
What You Can Do with NextGen Healthcare and Flows
A few examples of what you can automate by combining NextGen Healthcare's actions:
- Patient lookup before intake. Use Find Patient to confirm a patient already exists in NextGen Healthcare before creating a duplicate in your Knack app.
- Visit history review. Use Get Encounters by Patient ID to pull a patient's full encounter history into Knack for staff to review without opening NextGen Healthcare directly.
- Encounter detail lookup. Use Get Encounter Details by Encounter ID to pull the specifics of one known visit into a Knack record or report.
- Patient record sync. Use Get Patient by ID to keep a patient's demographic details in Knack current with what's on file in NextGen Healthcare.
Next Steps
- List of All 600+ connectors within Flows to see other connectors available in Flows.
- NextGen Healthcare's API Documentation for full technical reference on every endpoint behind these actions.
Want to see an action, trigger, or connection added?We're constantly looking to improve Flows. If you have feedback on the functionality, actions, triggers, or connections, you're welcome to submit feedback to our product team.
Updated 13 days ago