Pen CS General Practice eNewsletter
June eNews:
  • CareMonitor is now available on Topbar
  • PIP QI for General Practice: How to use Pen CS' CAT4 to be PIP QI compliant
  • Stand Up to Cancer. New Cancer Report now available in CAT4
  • App of the Month: CareMonitor
  • Webinar: Looking at medications - CAT4
  • Webinar: Cleaning up your diabetes register - Topbar and CAT4
  • Watch Previous Webinars
  • Tip of the Month: Topbar My Apps screen
CareMonitor is now available on Topbar
CareMonitor is a comprehensive, powerful and secure end-to-end cloud based shared care and population health management software solution. It enables healthcare teams to seamlessly collaborate, proactively manage care and take preventative action. CareMonitor makes it very efficient to coordinate clinical pathways, care planning and patient engagement. CareMonitor is now integrated into Topbar clinical decision support, and is compatible with Medical Director (Clinical, PracSoft), Best Practice, Zedmed and soon Genie.
Clinical Backend - GP Dashboard
CareMonitor leverages smart technology to enable population health management and proactive patient centred care. From real time metrics dashboard to easily allocating best practice care pathways, creating care plans, secure messaging, team communications, recall lists, assigning tasks, integrated video calls, sending educational content, companion app to monitor patient health, automated patient reminders, linking to your favourite appointment booking platform and much more. CareMonitor helps improve consumer engagement and patient loyalty. It also provides tools to implement consistency in quality of care and track real time population health insights.

To register your interest for a free webinar please contact [email protected]
Patient App
Be ready 1 st August 2019 for PIP QI! Pen CS has developed a suite of custom-built PIP QI software for General Practice that meets compliance, data governance and quality improvement requirements. 
 
PIP QI is a payment for general practice to support continuous quality improvement (CQI). The ten ‘Improvement Measures’ which form PIP QI, are yet to be formally announced, but are outlined in a recent AMA article . The Improvement Measures aim to provide national, consistent de-identified and aggregated general practice data for population health management. Further explained in a recent RACGP article .
 
The first step for all General Practices is PIP QI Compliance. Read more to find out how Pen CS can help.
Instantly view the proportion of patients in your practice population with a range of cancer conditions including:
 
Genitourinary and Gyecologic
·          Cervical
·          Prostate
·          Ovarian
·          Uterine
 
Breast Cancer
·          Breast
 
Thoracic and Respiratory
·          Lung
 
Skin
·          Melanoma
 
Digestive
·          Bowel Colorectal)
·          Pancreatic
 
Blood and Immune System
·          Leukemia
·          Multiple Myeloma
·          Lymphoma
 
Reference: 2017 Cancer data  from the  Australian Institute of Health and Welfare about the most commonly diagnosed cancers and beneficial screening programs.

For further information please visit: Pen CS Cancer Report Filters
Topbar CareMonitor App
The Topbar CareMonitor App allows you to directly access CareMonitor, with no extra time or work.

Conveniently reach CareMonitor's services, including the real time metrics dashboard and team communications, straight from the Topbar App, helping you to proactively manage patient care.

GPs can access the CareMonitor App on Topbar automated decision support platform for free if you are in a licensed PHN catchment area. For further details contact your local PHN.

Look for the CareMonitor App when you log into Topbar
Looking at Medications - CAT4
This webinar will show you filters and reports relating to medications available in CAT4.

Learning outcomes:

  • Be familiar with filters and reports related to medications in CAT4
  • Know how to identify patients eligible for medication review
  • Find at risk patients with diabetes and their medication details
  • Be aware of the limitations of the existing medication reports

Date: Wednesday 5th June
Time: 1:30pm - 2:00pm

Cleaning up your Diabetes Register - CAT4 and Topbar
This webinar will demonstrate how Topbar and CAT4 can assist in creating a reliable and accurate diabetes register.

Learning outcomes:

  • Consolidate and clean your existing diabetes register
  • Be familiar with the diabetes related data cleansing functionality in CAT4 and Topbar
  • You will be given a step by step example on how to clean and maintain a reliable register for patients with diabetes.

Date: Wednesday 19th June
Time: 1:30pm - 2:00pm

Previous Webinars
To view previous webinars, please:

Topbar My Apps
This video shows the new Topbar UI - the My Apps screen. In this brief video you will learn how to customise your Topbar apps by simple drag and drop configuration.