A flurry of innovation has brought teleconference and virtual care supports to physicians struggling to continue care under conditions of social distancing, with a number of postings highlighting progress made. The uptake of AHS's enterprise Zoom license for videoconference-enhanced patient interactions has been impressive!
At the same time, work has progressed to integrate virtual care supports within the Connect Care clinical information system. The first of many new functions goes into production later this week: clinicians scheduled for virtual care visits in Connect Care can manage teleconferencing from within Connect Care while using advanced Zoom account capabilities.
Dr. Chris White has produced a nice demonstration of how this works:
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2020-05-06
2019-09-30
First Looks: Pharmacy Information Network integration
The Alberta Pharmacy Information Network (PIN) offers a fairly complete record of medications that may have been dispensed for a patient from an outpatient pharmacy. The dispensing information is not the same as prescribing (intended) or complying (actually taking) medication lists. It is most accurate for persons over age 65 who are Alberta residents. Still, PIN can be a valuable source of information when doing medication reconciliation.
Connect Care has an interface to the PIN dataset. It is possible to see and review medications that have been dispensed. It is particularly useful to be able to select from those to initiate a patient's medication history during admission or new outpatient review.
A short demonstration shows how PIN information can appear and be reconciled.
Connect Care has an interface to the PIN dataset. It is possible to see and review medications that have been dispensed. It is particularly useful to be able to select from those to initiate a patient's medication history during admission or new outpatient review.
A short demonstration shows how PIN information can appear and be reconciled.
2019-09-21
First Looks: Launch Netcare from Connect Care Provider Portal
Physicians who do not use Connect Care can better support their patients by having access to important clinical information managed where Connect Care is the record of care. The Connect Care Provider Portal makes this possible. It complements, not replaces, Alberta's Netcare electronic health record.
It can help to work with both resources, Connect Care and Netcare, when reviewing information that may not be stored in a physician's independent electronic medical record. This is facilitated by being able to launch Netcare (in context, single-sign-on) to the correct patient record when reviewing the corresponding Connect Care record in the provider portal.
A very short demonstration shows how the function works (fictional patient and so no masking).
It can help to work with both resources, Connect Care and Netcare, when reviewing information that may not be stored in a physician's independent electronic medical record. This is facilitated by being able to launch Netcare (in context, single-sign-on) to the correct patient record when reviewing the corresponding Connect Care record in the provider portal.
A very short demonstration shows how the function works (fictional patient and so no masking).
2019-09-20
First Looks: Launch eCLINICIAN from Connect Care
Access to the eCLINICIAN outpatient Electronic Medical Record will be important for Connect Care clinicians in the Edmonton Zone who transition from eCLINICIAN to the Connect Care clinical information system (CIS).
Essential clinical information will transfer from the EMR to CIS as a result of data conversion. However, some information types (such as media manager attachments) do not transfer. If these are needed, in-context launch of the eCLINICIAN Link portal is supported within the CIS patient record.
This function will not be available in pre-production environments, as it depends upon a real patient identifier. A very short demonstration shows how the function works (with appropriate masking).
Essential clinical information will transfer from the EMR to CIS as a result of data conversion. However, some information types (such as media manager attachments) do not transfer. If these are needed, in-context launch of the eCLINICIAN Link portal is supported within the CIS patient record.
This function will not be available in pre-production environments, as it depends upon a real patient identifier. A very short demonstration shows how the function works (with appropriate masking).
2019-09-19
First looks: Launch Netcare from Connect Care
Our medical informatics community has been eager to see this for some time! Access to the Alberta Netcare Portal (ANP) will be important for Connect Care clinicians, as there remains a wealth of clinical information in the provincial Electronic Health Record (EHR) for years to come.
ANP can be accessed from any chart opened within the Connect Care clinical information system (CIS) by an authorized provider. Although the final details of the user experience continue to be tweaked, the basic idea can be appreciated from a short demonstration video, linked below.
Note that the launch is "single-sign-on" in that the user is not challenged to re-enter logon credentials. The launch is also "in context" because the correct patient chart is loaded and viewed in an activity tab within the open Connect Care chart.
This function will not be available in pre-production environments, as it depends upon an authorized provider ID and a shared patient identifier. Still, coming soon!
ANP can be accessed from any chart opened within the Connect Care clinical information system (CIS) by an authorized provider. Although the final details of the user experience continue to be tweaked, the basic idea can be appreciated from a short demonstration video, linked below.
Note that the launch is "single-sign-on" in that the user is not challenged to re-enter logon credentials. The launch is also "in context" because the correct patient chart is loaded and viewed in an activity tab within the open Connect Care chart.
This function will not be available in pre-production environments, as it depends upon an authorized provider ID and a shared patient identifier. Still, coming soon!
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