Wave 2 Ordersets Ready!

 Good news! All Wave 2 Order Sets are designed, built and validated on time. Personalization sessions starting September 17, 2020, will have a full panel of ordering tools to work with.

Congratulations, kudos and thanks to the clinical system design and build teams!

Which Order Sets are Released?

Lots of understandable urgency to get our validated and built Order Sets into production (PRD) where they can be reviewed and personalized!

The majority of Order Sets have been released to production by now, but significant numbers are still undergoing last minute medication and other fixes. They get moved into PRD as soon as the authors and accountable designers (e.g. Area Council) have signed off that fixes have fixed.

We'll update this spreadsheet tally of released Order Sets:

• Spreadsheet: Connect Care Order Sets in Production

Orders in Epic-Speak

​The Connect Care clinical information system (CIS) anticipates 100% prescriber order-entry, giving opportunity to speed what is typically a cumbersome process while also helping clinicians avoid error, improve utilization and contribute to our understanding of how health care interventions affect outcomes. Indeed, much of the value-case for a CIS pivots on effective clinical decision support (CDS). And the most present and prevalent CDS relates to order-entry.

Epic provides diverse order-related tools, labelled in ways that reflect software modules, branding and history. Those helping to review and validate clinical content built with these tools may not find developer terms intuitive. Also, it is important to recognize when a particular order tool is not the best fit to the clinical problem meriting decision support.

A new Connect Care "Key Concepts" summary focuses on order-related tools:

• Key Concept: Order-Related Clinical Decision Supports

eCLINICIAN CDS Project Published

The eCLINICIAN clinical information system (CIS) brought a large portion of Alberta Health Services ambulatory care clinics into a full digital health records. Many lessons were learned over a decade of growth. Indeed, some lessons prove interesting to clinical informaticians elsewhere.

"Utilization of computerized clinical decision support for potentially inappropriate medications" appears in this month's issue of Clinical Interventions in Aging. This work started as a Physician Builder project, benefited from an AHS clinical improvement grant, and empowered quality improvements in family medicine, geriatrics and internal medicine.

We hope to build upon clinical decision support innovations as we move from build to deployment of the Connect Care provincial CIS.

• Article: Utilization of Computerized Clinical Decision Support...