Tippy - Fast Prescriber and Team Updates from Patient Lists

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

• Quick Changes to Prescriber and Team Attachments within Patient Lists

Clinicians caring for panels of inpatients often depend upon timely information about which patients are attached to inpatient teams. Many Connect Care system behaviours depend upon correct patient-attending attachments.  

The default workflow is to open a patient chart, go to the "Care Teams" activity, then update information about attending, referring, primary care, consulting or teams of prescribers associated with the patient. 

A faster workflow is to edit patient attachments right within patient lists, avoiding having to open each chart. This is supported when AHS-recommended list templates and columns are used (see Manual link below). 

To change an attending, referring or primary care provider, just double-click on the current (or blank) name. A focused pop-up editor will allow correction of that detail.

To change prescriber-patient attachments for many patients at once, select all (CTRL-A) or multiple (CNTRL plus click on the desired multiple rows) patients, then right click, and select. 

• Manual: Patient Lists
• Manual: Patient Attachments

Surgical Order Flows - Infographics

Surgical events challenge information systems and users alike: workflows can be complex and it is important that current and anticipated orders occur at the right time and place. A couple of new infographics summarizing surgical order flows pre-op and post-op:

These are linked in an updated section of the Connect Care Physician Manual:

• Manual: Workflows - Surgical Procedures
• Flow: Surgeon Pre-Op Orders
• Flow: Surgeon Post-Op Orders

Context before Search - Finding Patients

The Connect Care clinical information system (CIS) provides information about patients as well as information about the delivery of care to patients.

Workflows are context-dependent. To avoid opening a chart in the wrong context, with the wrong tools, it is very important to seek a patient chart with the intended workflow in mind, be that a visit (outpatient), admission (inpatient) or connected sequence of events (episode).

Start with context, then patient, then task, as explained in these short tips:

• Manual: Finding Patients
• Tip: Finding Patients
• Demo: Finding Patients in Context

Working with Patient Lists

The Connect Care clinical information system (CIS) includes powerful tools for accessing, using, personalizing, building and sharing patient lists. Some modules, such as those for emergency and surgical practitioners, have highly specialized lists. All physician roles have access to a Patient Lists workspace where groups of patients can be defined, displayed, tracked and shared.

Understanding, managing and personalizing lists can ease a physician's work. We are growing a new section of the Physician Manual.

• Manual: Patient Lists

Workflow QuickSteps - Other Encounters

Most physician interactions with a Connect Care chart occur when patients are in the ER or are hospitalized or are in clinic. Training covers this well.

Sometimes prescribers may need to interact with the chart outside of a hospital admission or an emergency or clinic visit. One may want to place orders that anticipate a future interaction or document an interaction that occurs where Connect Care has not yet deployed.

There are “virtual” (patient not physically in a Connect Care setting) encounters that can help address these needs. Indeed, there are many “other” encounter types. “Documentation” and “Orders Only” encounters are very useful for situations Connect Care physicians confront.

• Tip: Other Encounter Types
• Demo: Workflow QuickStep – Other Encounter Types