Behavioral Health
Manually Add Treatment Plan Goals
When adding behavioral health goals, you can either apply templates with predefined goals or manually enter goals as needed. Review the following to manually add goals to a treatment plan.
Manually add a goal
- Access or start a treatment plan.
- Locate the Goals section to the right of Concerns. If the section is collapsed, click Expand
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Click Add
to the right of the section heading.
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In Goal title, enter a statement summarizing the goal (up to 300 characters) or select a suggested title from the menu. Manually enter a statement or select from a dropdown library of athena-curated content to create a title.
- The remaining fields are optional, but can be useful when tracking goals. Define a goal statement, enter start and target dates, and a priority if helpful. For a complete listing of field definitions, see Quick Reference: Treatment Plan Goals.
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Click Add
to enter the goal.
See Maintain goals and Track goal progress to learn about updating these entries as the patient's treatment continues.
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