Between the Charts: CMIO Newsletter for Prescribers

The "Between the Charts" newsletter (news.connect-care.ca) summarizes key news, Epic system updates, efficiency tips and extras to help prescribers improve their Connect Care experience. A notice of when a new issue is available is published on the Connect Care Bytes blog - consider bookmarking ahs-cis.ca/cmioupdates to see these notices (as well as digests of all new blog posts).

Latest

        • Topics: Launch 9 accomplishments and remaining prescriber Virtual Drop-In Centre hours; airway alerts on Storyboard; expanded access to improved transition planning and Exceptional Care Plan improvements; ordering partial patch doses coming soon; Referral Order vs. Recommendation; variables that may cause a delay in viewing images after completion of an imaging investigation; how to report broken resource links

Archive

        • Topics: Prescriber Virtual Drop-In Centre for Launch 9 and Arthur Child prescribers/consultants; workflow updates for all launches due to Launch 9; Daylight Savings Time on November 3; MyAHS Connect access changes and referral information; simplified discharge dispositions for IFTs; H&P lookback setting extended; Op Notes in Prep for Procedure navigator; Advanced Care Planning/Goals of Care Designation updates; E0 Case Scheduling workflow updates for all STAT surgical cases; SMAT changes in pediatric/neonatal order sets coming soon; AHS Digital Scribe Project
        • Topics: New general Personalization training sessions, heparin infusion order panel improvements, Clinical Optimization – Continuous Improvement Sprints, upcoming auto-expiry of additional In Basket message types, upcoming update for Dragon Medical One's DragonBar, Complex Therapy Plan tab, how to avoid problems with community referrals and consults, Epic's Physician Builder courses
        • Topics: Fall Connect Care upgrade, new Connect Quality/CPSA project on improving Problem List use, enhancement to Admission and Discharge navigators, upcoming Glucometer Overview column in Patient Lists, sorting Patient Lists by location, upcoming admission and discharge In Basket notifications, adding on additional lab tests, address-level document and results delivery for mixed-context providers
        • Topics: Connect Care Launch 9, ambulatory lab standing orders and order maintenance, referral improvements, duplicate insulin order BPA, Consult Order Optimization Project rollout, phase out of Provider Care Team field for consults, discharge readiness via transition planning tools, updating patient attachments, OneDrive migration
        • Topics: Dragon Medical One training sessions, results release changes in MyAHS Connect, DI appointment provider notification change, new Meaningful Use Norms metrics, upcoming removal of provider department login restriction, reordering parenteral nutrition, Consult Order Optimization Project rollout
        • Topics: Connect Quality initiative, interim routing solution for mixed-context providers, tap-badge access for consulting prescribers to EDs, inpatient pathology and Continuing Care results routing changes, add-on labs with Transfusion Medicine samples, "My Next Steps" patient resource to help prepare for discharge, workflow updates for all launches
        • Topics: Launch 8, Interfacility Transfer workflow changes, consult order optimization, copy-paste dangers, suppressing/filtering medication warnings, embedding/linking images in documentation, Home Care referrals, completed classes in Signal 
        • Topics: Administration revisions and chart completion, Signal button, how to schedule immediate first dose when ordering a new medication, Interval H&P notes, blog screenshots
        • Topics: Signal button, Standard Analgesic Adult panel, ordering non-standard medications, data quality, blog screenshots, updating inpatient provider care team and service
        • Topics: Provider same name, repeating therapeutic drug monitoring, weight-based dosing
        • Topics: Netcare upgrade, referral order updates, rapid syphilis test, co-sign and incomplete trainee notes, outpatient DI order status, dose rounding/banding, transfer to Supportive Living vs. LTC, patient instructions, abbreviations/symbols/dose designations, acute care transfers
        • Topics: Prescription efaxing, MHA forms, add-on labs, additional testing for pathology samples, forms supports, Pend/Share vs. Sign, verbal/telephone orders, Database tab, finding medication orders, suspected/confirmed C. difficile infection, pediatric HEAL handouts, Care Paths