February 2021 Edition
  • COVID-19 Vaccine Administration using CAT Plus
  • MyGPMPtool Topbar App coming soon - easy and efficient care plans
  • Prescription Update
  • Updated Pneumococcal Vaccination Reports in CAT
  • NSW R&D Innovation Districts Challenge Award
  • Introducing Pen CS' Chief Technology Officer
  • Pen CS Learning: Free webinars
  • Release updates  
COVID-19 Vaccine Administration using CAT Plus
COVID-19 vaccine administration can now be managed in CAT Plus.
  • Find priority patients
  • Send SMS to recall patients for vaccine administration
  • Set notifications for opportunistic vaccine reminders
  • Monitor vaccine uptake

Join as Matthias Merzenich, Pen CS' Clinical Quality Assurance Manager, demonstrates how to use CAT Plus to identify priority populations matched to the COVID-19 vaccine Australian guidelines.
MyGPMPtool Topbar App coming soon - easy and efficient care plans
Less administrative work for the Doctor and practice nurse, more time with your patient

Pen CS is pleased to announce our partnership with MyGPMPtool (MGT), bringing you a new Topbar App that provides simple, efficient and more Medicare compliant care plans.

The MGT App features include:
  • Covering over 120 chronic diseases 
  • Unlimited Care Plans, TCAs, Reviews and Health assessments
  • Intuitive interface - easy to learn in just 15 minutes
  • Dedicated Practice Manager’s dashboard for easy monitoring, planning and enhancing practice performance in CDMs 

For further information, please check out www.mygpmptool.com.au/contact or email contact@mygpmptool.com.au.
Prescription Update
The Pen CS suite of tools is compatible with the new changes to PBS prescribing rules, mandatory from 1st February 2021.
CAT Pneumococcal Vaccination Reports
CAT will soon be releasing updated pneumococcal vaccination reports aligned to the Australian Immunisation Handbook.
Pen CS is a winner of the NSW R&D Innovation Districts Challenge Award.
More than 110 businesses applied to be part of the NSW Government’s first R&D Innovation Districts Challenge, which was designed to find research and development solutions, that reduce the impact of COVID-19, on the health and wellbeing of the people of NSW.

“Thirty-five finalists were evaluated by NSW Treasury and a panel of experts from NSW Health, the Office of the NSW Chief Scientist and Engineer, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and it’s great to see collaborations from innovation districts across the state share in the funding,” said The Hon. Stuart Ayres, NSW Minister for Jobs, Investment, Tourism and Western Sydney.

Pen CS is one of the winners of this challenge.

“Pen CS is delighted to be a winner of this Innovation Challenge which demonstrates our commitment, to continue to push boundaries, to find better ways to improve healthcare for all Australians," said Edweana Wenkart, Managing Director, Pen CS.
Senthu Jegadheesan
Pen CS CTO
Introducing new Chief Technology Officer
Senthu joins Pen CS in the role of CTO, to accelerate data linkage, interoperability and innovative health technology solutions to improve health outcomes for all Australians.

Before joining Pen CS, Senthu led digital initiatives, transformations and data analytics in multiple industries such as Healthcare, Primary Care, Pharma, Travel, Oil, Gas and Mining, Construction and Manufacturing industries.

With collaboration as a strong driving force, Senthu is looking forward to working with Pen CS partners to enhance data-driven improvement in healthcare.
Practice management - How to use CAT filters
Learning outcomes:
  • Know how to use filters in CAT to find patients of interest
  • How to combine multiple filters and the limitations of filters and reports
  • Access resources to assist working with CAT4 filters

Date: Thursday, 11th February 2021
Time: 1-1:30pm AEDT
Cardiovascular Event Risk Report with CAT Plus
Learning outcomes:
  • Find at-risk patients for CV disease using CAT4
  • Perform health assessments in your practice using CAT4
  • Identify patients with CV event risks as a part of PIP QI measures using CAT Plus
  • Access resources to assist working with CAT Plus for CV Event Risk

Date: Tuesday, 16th February 2021
Time: 1-1:30pm AEDT
Practice essentials - Topbar for Accreditation
Learning outcomes:
  • Understand the functionality of Topbar
  • Access available resources to assist working with Topbar

Date: Thursday, 25th February 2021
Time: 1-1:30pm AEDT
More training?
Watch more webinars here.
View CAT recipes here.
CAT
  • This update brings improvements for practices participating in the CHIME project including additional data items, data submission, MBS and prescribing fixes.
Topbar
  • This update brings performance improvements for Zedmed users and minor fixes towards Medicare Card expiry dates experienced by some users.