Pen CS General Practice eNewsletter
September eNews:
  • The University of Sydney Research Study: Invitation to Participate
  • PIP QI Update
  • Data Submission to your Primary Health Network
  • CAT4 '10 Improvement Measures' Report
  • Topbar '10 Improvement Measures' App
  • '10 Improvement Measures' Training Manual
  • CAT4 '10 Improvement Measures' (How To) Recipes
  • Extended Support Hours
  • Patient Management Systems - Pen CS Update
  • General Practice Privacy Poster
  • Webinars
The University of Sydney, in collaboration with Pen CS and the Improvement Foundation (IF), invites you to participate in a study aimed at improving the care of people living with heart disease.

Find out more and register here .
PIP QI Data Submission to your Primary Health Network
Pen CS supports data submission requirements to your Primary Health Network (PHN) for PIP QI. Our PIP QI features inform General Practices about the status of your data submission and provide Opt Out for patients:

  • Be notified of your successful submission
  • Be notified if your data submission is unsuccessful, so you can follow up with your PHN
  • Manage Patient 'Opt Out' in CAT4

Please contact your PHN with any questions.
PIP QI for General Practices - available in September
PIP QI '10 Improvement Measures' Report for General Practice in CAT4

CAT4 will provide a new PIP QI report to see the 10 Improvement Measures as graphs and to identify the patients behind the graphs.
 
Pen CS' clinical audit tool, CAT4, supports data-driven quality improvement and is used to analyse the practice population and better manage patient cohorts. CAT4 will feature the ‘10 Improvement Measures’ as an easy to use Report with the ability to drill down to patient level.

Please check with your PHN if this report is available. If not, please contact [email protected] .
 
PIP QI Topbar '10 Improvement Measures' App

The new Topbar PIP QI App will drive better data quality for the ‘10 Improvement Measures’. This App notifies the Doctor when a presenting patient’s record is missing information pertinent to the ‘10 Improvement Measures’. The Practice may opportunistically update clinical information, for the presenting patient, during the patient’s attendance at the Practice.
PIP QI on Topbar
PIP QI Training Manual for General Practices - Available Now
The Pen CS PIP QI Training Manual is now available for General Practices.

It is designed for new and experienced users of CAT Plus and details the new improvement measures as well as additional examples for quality improvement (QI) activities in a general practice setting. 
'10 Improvement Measures' CAT4 (How To) Recipes
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':

View all recipes here .
Extended Support Hours
Due to increased demand, we have extended our Support Hours until 12 October 2019.
 
Support will now be available from:
Monday-Friday : 7:30am-6pm
Saturday : 7:30am-5pm
 
Make a booking or contact our support team here . 
Pen CS Compatibility with Patient Management Systems
Pen CS Clinical Audit Tool (CAT4), used for data submission to your Primary Health Network (PHN) is compatible with the following clinical applications and versions. As new versions are released, Pen CS CAT4 will be validated and, if required, updated to maintain compatibility.

  • Medical Director
  • Best Practice
  • Communicare
  • Genie
  • Specialist Complete formerly know as GP Complete
  • practiX
  • Medinet
  • MedTech Evolution
  • MMEx
  • Stathealth
  • Zedmed
General Practice Privacy Poster
The Pen CS General Practice Privacy Poster is available to display at your General Practice. 
Basic Registry Clean Up: Diabetes
Get your diabetes register up to date by checking for undefined diagnoses as well as looking at potential free text entries. We will also address duplicate records.

This will put you in a good position to produce reliable reports and work in the context of PIP QI with your diabetes registers.

Learning Outcomes :
  • Find duplicate patients
  • Know how to identify patients with a non-specific diabetes diagnosis
  • Be familiar with the cleansing reports to identify patients with indicated diabetes but no coded diagnosis recorded

Date: Wednesday, 4th September 2019

Time : 1-1:30pm AEST

Register here .
PIP QI - Improvement Measures for Patients with Diabetes
This webinar will show you some examples for quality improvement (QI) activities around diabetes. This session builds on the 'Basic Registry Clean Up' session, as it is important to be confident in the quality of your clinical data and registers before starting QI activities.

Learning Outcomes:
  • Participants will be shown a number of relevant pathology and other reports that can be used for QI activities around diabetes
  • Know how to report on the three QI measures defined for PIP QI for patients with diabetes
  • Learn how to access additional resources

Upcoming Dates :

Time : 1-1:30pm AEST

View all webinars here .
Topbar for Beginners
A demonstration of Topbar, clinical decision support tool. This 30 minute demo will show the functionality and value of Topbar for new and mid-level users.

Date: Tuesday, 24 September 2019

Time : 1-1:30pm AEST

Register here .
CAT4 for Beginners
This 30 minute session is designed to give new and existing users of CAT4 an overview of the functionality and showcase examples of the use of the tool in general practice.

Date: Wednesday, 25 September 2019

Time : 1-1:30pm AEST

Register here .
Previous Webinars
Find more webinars here .