Tippy - Quick Set Primary Provider Team for Inpatients

Tippies can be quickly adopted with immediate workflow benefits...

• Set Primary Provider Team from Inpatient Lists

There are a number of Connect Care functions (e.g., reporting) that depend upon knowing which inpatient provider team is considered the "Primary" team attached to an inpatient. Patients can be linked to more than one team but only one can be the designated primary, or home, team.

The fastest way to support consistent attachments is through the use of standardized Connect Care patient lists.

Templates for "ED Consult" and for "IP Management" lists have a column that shows the primary team as well as the inpatient service (specialty) responsible. Double-clicking on one of these values brings up a pop-up editor where quick-buttons allow fast selection of the primary team:

Similar functionality is available wherever inpatient care teams are viewed and edited within an inpatient chart.

Tippy - Adding or Updating Referring and Primary Care Providers in Clinic Schedule Lists

Tippies can be quickly adopted with immediate workflow benefits...

• Updating a Patient's Referring and Primary Care Providers in Outpatient Lists

Connect Care uses information about a patient's referring and primary care provider (PCP) to facilitate a number of workflows. 

Ensuring that both the referring provider and PCP are correctly identified prior to starting an outpatient encounter is essential to some communications and billing actions. While this information should be entered when visits are scheduled, prescribers should confirm its presence before initiating an actual visit. 

An appointment list column makes this easy to do. 

Note the column with "Ref/PCP Info" in its header. Missing information will be apparent within the column as a blank space. Users can double-click within that blank space to open an editing tool that facilitates rapid entry or revision of the correct referring or PCP provider name.

• Tip: Identifying/Modifying Primary Care and Referring Providers in the Clinic Schedule

Tippy - Completing Consult Orders without Consult Notes

Tippies can be quickly adopted with immediate workflow benefits...

• Completing Consult Orders from Patient Lists

Admitting services may elect to complete an admitting H&P note and use this to fulfill documentation requirements for consultation requests from emergency departments. In this case, a Consult note is not prepared and the usual method for closing the consult order is not available. If the consult order is not "completed", the patient remains in the admitting service's unfinished consults list. 

A simple workflow can be used to complete the consultation order from within an inpatient list. This is done by using a "Physician Consults" report when a patient in a list is selected. The report has a link to "complete" the consult (simultaneously removing it from the list of unfinished consults).

• Tip: Completing Consultation Orders from within Patient Lists
• Manual: Consultation Workflows

Tippy - Simple Patient List Reports

Tippies can be quickly adopted with immediate workflow benefits...

• Simple Patient List Reports

Connect Care's "Reporting Workbench" tool is powerful. It helps users use, create, save and share reports listing patients, encounters or other events matching one or more criteria.

A great way to get started is to customize a very simple report that meets a common need: finding all patients at one or more facilities where one or more physicians serve as the attending provider. We've created a mini-tip showing exactly how this is done (within a few minutes).

• Tip: Creating a Physician Inpatient Report
• Manual: Finding Attached Patients

The technique can be extended to produce more complex reports to answer clinical questions.