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.

Latest

        • Topics: Fall Connect Care upgrade, Optimization Training classes in September, 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

Archive

        • Topics: Connect Care Launch 9, ambulatory lab standing orders and order maintenance, Optimization Training classes in August, referral improvements, duplicate insulin order BPA, Consult Order Optimization Project rollout, phase out of Provider Care Team field for consults, fall Connect Care upgrade, discharge readiness via transition planning tools, updating patient attachments, OneDrive migration
        • Topics: Dragon Medical One training sessions, Optimization Training classes in July, 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, Virtual Drop-In for Launch 8 and wildfire response, 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, Optimization Training classes in June, "My Next Steps" patient resource to help prepare for discharge, workflow updates for all launches
        • Topics: Optimization Training classes, 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: Optimization Training classes, prescriber billing webinars, 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: Hyperdrive upgrade, Daylight Savings Time, Signal button, Standard Analgesic Adult panel, ordering non-standard medications, data quality, blog screenshots, updating inpatient provider care team and service
        • Topics: Hyperdrive upgrade, downtime, 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, MyAHS Connect activation, pediatric HEAL handouts, Care Paths