Pen CS GP eNewsletter
April eNews
  • COVID-19 Disease Tracker
  • Topbar CareMonitor Telehealth App
  • COVID-19 General Practice CAT4 Report
  • COVID-19 Patient Advice and Guidance
  • COVID-19 Resources for General Practice
  • COVID-19 CAT Plus Coding
  • Webinars
  • Topbar for Beginners
  • CAT4 for COVID-19
  • CAT Plus and Mental Health
COVID-19 Disease Tracker: Real-time presentations of COVID-19
Available Now

The new Topbar Disease Tracker app shows real-time presentations of individuals presenting in the practice with diagnosed conditions of COVID-19.

The Tracker can also show presentations of other conditions, including Asthma, COPD and Diabetes.

This is a unique view of de-identified COVID-19 positive patients across Australia - only your practice may identify your patients.
The Disease Tracker's view is customisable for your preferred view
Topbar CareMonitor Telehealth App
Simple and fast Telehealth, straight from Topbar

No lock in or fixed monthly cost, just pay as you go.

$0.50 per call.

CAT4 COVID-19 Report
Available Now

Find presentations of COVID-19 for your practice.
Find high-risk patients and support them by providing timely advice
The risk of COVID-19 is higher for some groups than for others.

This guide contains recipes on how you can identify those high-risk patients in your practice, through CAT4.

The reports/lists of patients can be used to send out SMS or Voice Messages to patients at risk, providing information about testing, quarantine or other relevant items.

It is not intended to be used for recalling patients at risk.

Recipes can also be found here.
$20 Recall CAT Voucher - SMS and Voicemail
Inform your patients

To help you keep your patients informed during the COVID-19 pandemic, Pen CS is offering you a $20 credit voucher* for Recall CAT, the SMS and Voicemail solution in CAT4.

Recall CAT enables you to send a SMS or Voicemail message, from your practice, directly to COVID-19 high-risk patients identified in CAT4.

SMS credit bundles from 15c to 25c per call.

To redeem your voucher, please contact support@pencs.com.au or call 1800 762 993 with code COVID.


*While offer lasts. Terms and conditions Apply. For first time Recall CAT users only.
COVID-19 Resources for General Practices
Find resources to help you use CAT Plus to assist with your management with COVID-19.

Resources include:
  • How to find high-risk patients using CAT4
  • Upcoming COVID-19 Webinars
  • Previous webinars and training videos

COVID-19 CAT Plus Clinical Data Coding
CAT Plus supports the new COVID-19 codes mapped for:
  • Best Practice
  • Medical Director
  • Zedmed
How to find and inform High Risk Patients for COVID-19
Identify high risk patients for COVID-19 and send them information using SMS and voice messages through CAT Plus.

Learning Outcomes:
  • Identify Indigenous patients over 50 with two or more chronic conditions
  • Identify older patients with two or more chronic conditions
  • Identify patients over 80 years of age
  • Identify patients with a cancer diagnosis
  • Identify patients with specific chronic diseases
  • Know where to get help and how to access resources to assist working with CAT4 for COVID-19.

Date: Tuesday, 5th April 2020
Time: 1-1:30pm AEST

CareMonitor Telehealth
This webinar will help you learn more about CareMonitor's new Telehealth platform, available now on Topbar.

Learning Outcomes:
  • Be familiar with the functionality CareMonitor Telehealth platform
  • Know how to conduct one-to-one or one-to-many video consultations from the platform
  • Learn how to access CareMonitor Telehealth from Topbar
  • Know where to get help and access resources to assist

Date: Thursday, April 16th 2020
Time: 1-1:30pm AEST

CAT Plus and COVID-19
This webinar will demonstrate how you can use CAT Plus to assist with your management of COVID-19.

Learning Outcomes:
  • Find high-risk patients and learn how to keep them informed through SMS and Voice Messages
  • Know how to produce a CAT4 report on COVID-19
  • Be familiar with the available Topbar Apps for COVID-19 including:
  • COVID-19 Disease Tracker
  • CareMonitor Telehealth
  • National Coronavirus Guidance
  • Know how to access resources to assist working with CAT Plus for COVID-19.

Upcoming Dates:

Time: 1-1:30pm AEST
Previous Webinars
Find more webinars here .