Pen CS General Practice eNewsletter
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August eNews:
- Are you PIP QI Compliant?
- '10 Improvement Measures' CAT4 Recipes
- New Topbar App: Patient Connector
- Research Study Spotlight: New treatment to prevent limb amputation due to cardiovascular disease
- Release Notes: CAT4 Release - 17th July
- Pen CS in the Cloud
- General Practice Privacy Poster
- Join Pen CS at HIC
- App of the Month: Patient Connector
- Webinars
- Tip of the Month: How to find PIP QI recipes
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Are you PIP QI Compliant?
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August 1st 2019 marked the
launch of PIP QI
, a Department of Health initiative that aims to support general practices that participate in quality improvement activities to improve patient outcomes and deliver best practice care.
In response, Pen CS is launching a new suite of software tools for General Practice and Primary Health Networks (PHNs) designed around the ‘10 Improvement Measures’.
The Pen CS software PIP QI package includes:
- ‘10 Improvement Measures’ Report for General Practice*
- Topbar ‘PIP QI App’ for General Practice
- PIP QI ‘Compliance’ for General Practice (reporting package)*
PIP QI Products Release Dates:
- CAT4 ’10 Improvement Measures’ Graphs and Report – available September 2019
- Topbar ’10 Improvement Measures’ Data Quality App – available September 2019
*These features may be available from your PHN or purchased directly from Pen CS.
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'10 Improvement Measures' CAT4 (How To) Recipes
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Pen CS has just released the CAT4 step by step guides (recipes) for the '10 Improvement Measures' specified in the PIP QI. Find them
here.
This will enable practices using CAT4 to check their patient data in regards to the national improvement measures and to use the reports to inform their quality improvement activities. Snapshots of your data can be used to measure change over time and will give you a better understanding of your patients. The recipes provide detailed instructions for new or experienced users on how to create reports in relation to each of the improvement measures.
Pen CS Recipes also include 'How To':
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Patient Connector: Find a Specialist
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Find suitable wait times and affordable specialists, at a convenient location for your patient.
Specialist doctors play a crucial role in the treatment and management of health conditions. The
ABS
recently reported that 55% of people saw a specialist doctor in 12 months, and of those people, 50% went two to four times and 23% went five or more times.
Patient Connector is increasing the efficiency of the GP’s referral process to specialists, as it avoids patients having to return for a second GP consultation because the original specialist they were referred to was not suitable. This occurs because you as GPs do not have access to upfront information such as specialists' fees and waitlists.
The Patient Connector App on Topbar allows private patients to access transparent information about specialists, including fees, locations and availability.
Once the patient has selected a specialist doctor, Patient Connector will inform you which specialist your patient selected and when the patient is booked in for consultation. You will receive a letter from the specialist doctor with an update of the patient’s treatment pathway, as you are still the referring GP.
Find out how Patient Connector works
here
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The Patient Connector App is available now on Topbar.
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Patient Connector on Topbar
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Dr Mary Kavurma of Heart Research Institute: New treatment to prevent limb amputation due to cardiovascular disease
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Dr Mary Kavurma of the Heart Research Institute is conducting research to find a new treatment to prevent limb amputation due to cardiovascular disease, through the TRAIL mechanism. Read our interview with Dr Mary Kavurma
here
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The challenge:
Cardiovascular disease affects one in every six Australians. It can manifest in the form of Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD), where blood flow to the limbs is reduced due to narrowed arteries. When circulation is cut off, the limb develops gangrene and starts to decay and die.
Currently, there is no cure for gangrene. The only treatment option is to amputate the affected limb to prevent the gangrene from spreading further.
Every three hours in Australia, one person has an arm or leg amputated due to PAD.
Additionally, people with type 2 diabetes are three to four times more likely to develop cardiovascular conditions, including PAD. Diabetes-related amputations and associated costs place a $875M burden on the Australian healthcare system every single year.
The solution:
Dr Mary Kavurma and the team at the Heart Research Institute have found that TRAIL (Tumor Necrosis Factor-Related Apoptosis-Inducing Ligand), a naturally occurring molecule, has shown it can stimulate the growth of new blood vessels and dramatically improve blood flow to the limbs in animal experiments.
This discovery offers hope of a potential new treatment pathway for PAD. If a drug could be identified that activates the TRAIL mechanism in people with PAD, so new blood vessels grew, it could bypass the narrowed arteries and restore blood flow to the limbs.
Watch the video below to find out more.
If you wish to find out more information about this research study, please contact us
here
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The latest CAT4 release includes:
- Filters: A 15 month filter has been added to the Date Range Result and Date Range Visit filter tabs
- Influenza graph can now be filtered by the Date Range Result filter (15 months is relevant for PIP QI)
- Zedmed integrator password integration: can be set in CAT preference screen, for full details see here: Zedmed Requirements
- BP Jade integration, for full details see here: Best Practice Requirements
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Pen CS has commenced positive discussions with various cloud-based clinical systems and is looking forward to integrating with their new solutions. As each of these partners are in differing stages of development, so are our integration plans. If you have concerns about whether your clinical system is compatible with Pen CS, please have them contact us.
We are happy to support integration between clinical systems and our platform so you can be PIP QI compliant and successfully submit data to your Primary Health Network (PHN).
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General Practice Privacy Poster - Available Now
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The new Pen CS General Practice Privacy Poster is now available.
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To access these versions of the poster, please contact your local PHN.
- A4
- A3
- A4 (add your own logo)
- A3 (add your own logo)
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Join Pen CS at HIC, 12-14 August 2019, Melbourne
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The
Health Informatics Conference (HIC)
is Australia’s premier digital health, e-health and health informatics conference, and brings together delegates from across Australia to discuss digital health research, case studies, trends and technology advances.
Join Director of Pen CS, Edweana Wenkart, who will be speaking at HIC, in what will be interesting and topical sessions.
Topic:
“You can’t ask that!”
- A candid Q&A de-mystifying the digital health industry; discussing the good, bad & possible.
Presented by MSIA.
Date:
Monday 12th August
Location:
Eureka Room 3
Time:
11:00am to 12:30pm
Topic: "
Deep Dive on Data Collection and Research"
Harnessing data to enhance health literacy and chronic disease self-management: A collaborative partnership between Healthily and Pen CS.
Speakers
: Dr Tina Campbell, Healthily and Edweana Wenkart, Pen CS
Date:
Tuesday 13th August
Location
: Hospitality Suite 6
Time
: 2:00pm to 3:30pm
We look forward to seeing you there.
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Patient Connector: Help your patients find the right specialist
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Quickly and easily help your patient find the right specialist with the Patient Connector Topbar App.
The App allows the following:
- Make a submission on behalf of your patient to find a specialist;
- Patients then receive multiple responses from specialists, outlining their fees, waitlist and location options, so they can compare and select their preferred specialist;
- View specialist doctors' profiles, including their qualifications, areas of advanced training and languages they speak.
Increase the efficiency of your referral process to specialist doctors directly from the Topbar App.
Look for the Patient Connector App when you log into Topbar.
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PIP QI for General Practice
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Learn how to work with your CAT Plus tools in the context of PIP QI. Pen CS is working on adding more reports to CAT Plus showing the new improvement measures in a new module, but CAT Plus already provides the ideal tools for quality improvement activities. In this webinar some QI examples will be shown as well as an overview of the 10 Improvement Measures and what can be done currently.
Learning Outcomes:
- Be familiar with reports/queries relating to the 10 Improvement Measures
- Participants will be shown how CAT Plus can assist and inform quality improvement activities
Upcoming Dates
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Time
: 1-1:30pm AEST
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PIP QI Improvement Measures
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Learn how to report on the new PIP QI Improvement Measures using CAT4 and how to take action using Topbar and CAT4 at your practice. This is part one of our webinars on the Improvement Measures – more soon to follow!
Learning Outcomes:
- Know how to find more resources on CAT Plus and PIP QI
- Be familiar with a number of the improvement measures and how to report on them using CAT4
- Create Topbar prompts based on the criteria for the improvement measures so that action can be taken when patients are present at the practice
Upcoming Dates
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- Part 1: Tuesday, 13 August 2019 - Register.
- Part 2: Wednesday, 21 August 2019 - Register.
Time
: 1-1:30pm AEST
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Find
more
webinars
here
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How to find PIP QI recipes
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Access user guides for all CAT Plus products. In particular, we will show you how to access the new CAT4 recipes for the PIP QI ten improvement measures.
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