Patient Lists
The Connect Care clinical information system (CIS) includes powerful tools for accessing, personalizing, building and sharing patient lists. Some contexts, such as those for emergency and surgical prescribers, have highly specialized lists. All prescribers can access a Patient Lists activity, where groups of patients can be defined, tracked and shared. As always, clinicians should be privacy-mindful when using lists to access patient information.
Personal Lists ("My Lists")
The "My Lists" section of Patient Lists groups lists that matter to the signed-on provider. A default "My Patients" list identifies all inpatients associated with the current provider by virtue of an attending, team or other active responsibility. This may suffice for clinicians with infrequent inpatient responsibilities.
Those working on inpatient ward, consult or service teams can benefit from the creation of one or more personalized lists. The user can copy any existing list (such as My Patients) to make a personalized derivative. It is also possible to create custom personal lists from scratch.
My List Templates
The easiest way to get started with (or update) a personal "My List" is to create a new list in the patient lists activity, then edit its properties (right-click on list, or edit properties from patient lists menu) and copy settings from an AHS template (named such that they appear near the top of copy-template pick-lists) fitting one of the following use cases:
Manage a panel of inpatients: "++AHS IP MD PATIENT MANAGEMENT TEMPLATE++"
Inpatient ward rounds: "++AHS IP MD WARD ROUNDS TEMPLATE++"
Inpatient RAPID (multidisciplinary discharge planning) rounds: "++AHS IP RAPID ROUNDS CORE TEMPLATE++"
Inpatient consultation panel: "++AHS IP MD WARD CONSULTS TEMPLATE++"
Emergency consultation panel: "++AHS IP MD ED CONSULTS TEMPLATE++"
Monitor and update patient preferences (pronouns, language, communications, etc.): "++AHS IP PATIENT PREFERENCES TEMPLATE++"
Patient archive (billing): "++AHS IP MD PATIENT ARCHIVE++"
Personal lists can be shared between colleagues. This allows inpatient groups to create and share lists that serve a specific purpose, such as quality rounds cases. Patients can be moved between lists, assigned, de-assigned, or removed.
My Patients
A "My Patients" list appears in the "My Lists" (top-left) section of the Patient Lists activity. Although this list is present by default and seen at first logon for new users, note that it is a personal list that can be edited. It is possible for users to change its name or properties... and so possibly change its default behaviours. "My Patients" normally shows patients with the following attachments:
Inpatients for whom the current user is an Attending Prescriber, Consulting Prescriber, Principal Prescriber.
Some other, but not all, patient attachment relationships that add the current user to the inpatient treatment team.
The "My Patients" list can also contain patients that are manually added or removed from the folder by the user. This can be confusing if the same folder has patients that come and go according to changing attachments and others that come and go according to manual actions. We recommend that "My Patients" be left in its default state where it contains just one item: the "All My Patients" system list (dragged and dropped from the systems list below). This ensures that "My Patients" reflects inpatient attachments known to the system. Other (custom) personal lists can be used for grouping patients under manual control.
My Consults
A "My Consults" list may appear in the "My Lists" (top-left) section of the Patient Lists activity when users first login to Connect Care. This functions like the "My Patients" list, except that the default System List association is "All My Patients >> Consults". Patients will come and go from this list according to the placement of consult orders specifying the current user as consultant, or explicit additions of the current user to the inpatient care team as a consulting physician.