Pen CS GP eNewsletter
February eNews:
  • New Year, New Look Topbar
  • NEW: Cancer Toolkit - How to use CAT Plus to better manage Cancer
  • Booklet: Improving Data Quality - CAT Plus and your Patient Records
  • Data Quality Workshop
  • NEW: PIP QI training module on doctorportal Learning
  • Asthma and COPD Alert - $100 Recall CAT Voucher
  • Release Notes
  • Webinars
  • COPD
  • Chronic Disease Management and Health Assessments - CAT4 for Nurses
  • Q&A for Practice IT Support
  • Cancer
  • Pen CS Announcements
  • Introducing our New Product Innovation Lead
  • Pen CS Christmas Party
New Year, New Look Topbar
Introducing a 'New-Look' Topbar - refreshed and customisable.
Topbar Custom Colours
Topbar v2.6 - Available Now

With this release, Pen CS implemented the first step in a user interface refresh of Topbar.

Apps are now grouped by 'Patient Apps' or 'Practice Apps':
  • Patient apps will sit on the right side of Topbar, next to the patient name, showing notifications relevant to that patient only.
  • Practice apps will be on the left side of Topbar, providing access to applications that are not directly related to the patient currently open in the clinical system. Apps include Health Pathways, Waiting Room and the CPD App.
  • Read more.

Custom Themes
  • The background colour of Topbar may be customised. Choose your preferred theme via the settings on the right side of Topbar. Read more.

Topbar v2.7 - Coming Soon

Updates to the User Interface of Topbar Apps.

The following Topbar Apps have been updated for increased ease-of-use with a new, fresh look:
  • Waiting Room App
  • Data Cleansing App
  • MBS Items App
  • Topbar Settings Page

Further information will be available at https://help.pencs.com.au/.
World Cancer Day Launch - Pen CS Cancer Toolkit
How to use CAT Plus to better manage Cancer
Today is World Cancer Day. Join the global effort in taking action to help prevent and fight cancer, with the help of our new Cancer Toolkit.

Preventive services, diagnostic screening and timely treatment are the first steps in helping fight cancer.

Our cancer guide demonstrates to practices how you can better manage cancer using our CAT Plus software and improve the data quality of your patient records.

Learning outcomes:
  • Prevention and early detection of cancer
  • Detection of under-screened or never screened patients
  • Improving your practice data quality
  • Clinical decision support for cancer screening

The booklet is available on the General Practice Resources Portal.

Our upcoming cancer webinar on 20th February will take you through this booklet. Register now .
Improving Data Quality - CAT Plus and Patient Records
Improve the quality of patient records by using CAT Plus.

This step-by-step guide shows you how to improve your data quality and includes user guides and recipes, to get started with data cleansing.

The booklet is available on the General Practice Resources Portal.
Data Quality Workshop for General Practice
Pen CS are holding Data Quality Improvement Workshops for General Practice in 2020.

These 2 hour workshops will focus on how to drive quality improvement in General Practice.

Learning Outcomes:
  • CAT4 Cleansing to drive quality data
  • Topbar Data Cleansing App for Clinical Coding
  • Topbar Waiting Room App for Demographic Coding
  • Topbar PIP QI App for Improvement Measures Coding

Register your interest to receive updates and secure your seat.
A new online training module by Pen CS for PIP QI, developed in collaboration with AMA's doctorportalLearning.com.au, is available now.

CPD Points
Eligible for Category 1 and 2 self-learning CPD points:
  • Category 1, Quality Improvement activities – Individual PDSA or Small group PDSA
  • Category 2: Unaccredited category 2, Quality improvement reflection
  • Reference RACGP CPD

Learning Outcomes
The module demonstrates how to use CAT Plus for PIP QI, including:
  • '10 Improvement Measures' Report for General Practice, in CAT4
  • Topbar 'PIP QI App' for General Practice
  • Scheduled sharing of de-identified clinical data with your Primary Health Network (PHN)
  • Email alerts to notify the General Practice of the status of your data submission (success/failure) to your PHN
  • Patient 'Opt Out' (existing feature)

How practices can access the module in doctorportal Learning:
  • This module will be freely available to all doctorportal Learning users. You will need to log in (AMA Member single sign-on) or sign up (Non-AMA Member, including all healthcare professionals) to doctorportal Learning to access the learning, which is also free.
  • Non-AMA Members who choose to use the doctorportal Learning CPD Tracker pay a monthly subscription fee of $22/month following a 60 day free trial, but this is not required to engage in learning and to receive a 'Certificate of Completion' as evidence.

The module is available now and can be accessed here .
$100 Voucher for   Recall CAT - SMS and Voicemail

In support of Asthma and COPD prevention, Pen CS is offering CAT4 users a $100 credit voucher for Recall CAT, the SMS and Voicemail solution in CAT4.

Recall CAT enables users to send a SMS or Voicemail message, from the practice, directly to Asthma and COPD patients identified in CAT4.

General Practice Special Offer:
Redeem  $100 Recall CAT Voucher for SMS/Voicemail messaging  in CAT4.
Code: ASTHMA
Contact  support@pencs.com.au  OR call  1 800 762 993 .

Reducing hospital admissions and promoting prevention for patients with Asthma and COPD, using CAT Plus
Pen CS technology equips you with powerful tools to better manage COPD and Asthma patients, who are currently at risk due to hazardous air quality from bushfire smoke. Follow these simple steps to manage your patients:

Using clinical audit tool, CAT4:
  • Identify Asthma and COPD patients
  • Recall for Asthma and COPD high risk patients
Topbar V2.7
  • The App User Interface has been redesigned for the following apps:
  • Cleansing App
  • MBS App
  • Patient Health Summary
  • Prompts App
  • Waiting Room App
  • The UI changes do not affect the functionality of the apps listed above.
  • The Zedmed-Topbar interface has been rewritten to improve performance and to align with changes in the Zedmed database structure.
  • Minor bug fixes and improvements.
CAT4 V4.22
COPD
This webinar will cover reports/filters and functionality in CAT Plus related to respiratory disease, in particular to COPD

Learning Outcomes:
  • Be familiar with the available filters relevant for reporting on patients with COPD
  • Know how to identify patients with no entry or free text entry instead of a coded COPD diagnosis
  • Understand the medication mapping for respiratory disease used in CAT4

Date: Thursday 6th February, 2020
Time: 1-1:30pm AEDT

Chronic Disease Management and Health Assessments - CAT4 for Nurses
Learn the functionality frequently used by practice nurses in general practice.

Learning Outcomes:
  • Know how to find patients with at least one chronic condition and eligible for GPMP/TCA in CAT4
  • Identify patients eligible for 45-49, 75+ Health Assessments
  • Know how to access resources to better utilise CAT4

Date: Tuesday, 11th February 2020
Time: 1-1:30pm AEDT

Q&A for Practice IT Support
This webinar is designed for IT professionals supporting general practice and for general practice staff/owners doing their own IT maintenance. The focus is on the technical details on how to install, configure and troubleshoot CAT Plus in general practice.

Learning Outcomes:
  • Know how to configure the CAT Plus suite to work with their clinical system and local set up
  • Learn how to troubleshoot the most common issues
  • Know where to get more information/resources

Date: Tuesday, 18th February 2020
Time: 1-1:30pm AEDT

Cancer
This webinar is focused on cancer screening and reporting using CAT Plus. A range of activities will be shown to assist general practice staff in efficient recall and general handling of cancer screening.

Learning Outcomes:
  • How to establish a baseline for your patient population in regards to colon, cervical and breast cancer screening
  • Be familiar with the limitation and underlying data requirements of the cancer screening reports in CAT4
  • Learn how to combine recall for cancer screening with other recall reasons such as overdue GPMP or similar MBS items
  • How to access advanced cancer reporting in CAT Plus

Date: Thursday, 20th February 2020
Time: 1-1:30pm AEDT

Previous Webinars
Find more webinars here .
Introducing Dinesh, Product Innovation Lead
Dinesh joins Pen CS in the role of Cloud data and Solution Architect, to grow Topbar clinical decision support that improves patient outcomes.

Before joining Pen CS, Dinesh held various engineering leadership roles in the areas of software development for CareMonitor, NSW Department of Education, Boral and Optus, building greenfield applications.

With customer experience as a strong driving force, Dinesh is looking forward to working with Pen CS customers to enhance data-driven improvement in healthcare.
Pen CS Christmas Party
Pen CS enjoyed our end-of-year celebrations, complete with lawn bowls and our infamous Brazilian BBQ.

It was a great chance to celebrate the end of a big year for Pen CS and have a bit of fun with our team members.