March 2021 Edition
  • New COVID-19 Vaccine Monitoring Topbar App - coming soon
  • New COVID-19 Vaccine CAT Reports - coming soon
  • World Kidney Day - Identify patients with chronic kidney disease for a GPMP and/or TCA
  • CAT and the Heart Foundation's New Heart Health Check Toolkit
  • Pen CS Learning: Free Webinars
  • Release updates  
Pen CS COVID-19 Response
NEW COVID-19 Vaccine Monitoring Topbar App - coming soon
Pen CS is launching a new COVID-19 Vaccine Monitoring Topbar App. This App provides opportunistic patient care in your practice.

Features include:
  1. Prompts the healthcare provider when an eligible patient is in consultation
  2. Shows COVID-19 vaccine status

The Topbar COVID-19 Vaccine App will be available for all practices soon, at no extra charge.
NEW COVID-19 Vaccine CAT Reports - coming soon
COVID-19 vaccine administration and monitoring is rolling out in CAT - Take advantage of the new features Pen CS is releasing for National Immunisation Administration and Monitoring.
Three new CAT COVID-19 Reports, for recall and immunisation tracking:
  • COVID-19 At Risk Vaccination Status
  • COVID-19 Vaccination Status - will provide one simple report to identify patients as well as their immunisation status
  • COVID-19 Vaccination Claims – Total revenue

These new reports will be available in March 2021.
New CAT Report: COVID-19 Vaccination Claims (billed MBS items) – Total revenue
Health Day Highlight
World Kidney Day is on Thursday 11th March 2021.

Chronic Kidney Disease contributed to 1.4 million hospitalisations for regular dialysis in 2014–15.

CAT and the Heart Foundation's New Heart Health Check Toolkit
The NEW Heart Health Check Toolkit helps to support and encourage general practices to integrate Heart Health Checks into routine patient care.

In collaboration with Heart Foundation, Pen CS has compiled resources and will be running a webinar on how CAT Plus (CAT and Topbar) can be used to identify and recall eligible patients for a Heart Health Check.
Pen CS Learning: Free Webinars
COVID-19 Response – Identify high risk patients for vaccination
Learning Outcomes:
  • Learn how to use CAT reports and filters to identify groups of patients at different risk level for COVID-19 complications in line with QI activities on COVID-19
  • Identify high-risk patients eligible for Immunisation and learn how to keep them informed through SMS and Voice Messages
  • Access resources to assist working with CAT4 for COVID-19
Date: Thursday, 11th March 2021
Time: 1-1:30pm AEDT
The New Heart Health Check Toolkit and CAT Plus
Learn to navigate your way through the Heart Foundation's NEW Heart Health Check Toolkit and how to recall eligible patients with CAT Plus.
 
Learning Outcomes:
  • Navigate your way through the Heart Health Check Toolkit
  • Identify and recall eligible patients for the Heart Health Check with CAT Plus
  • Access the templates and resources found in the Toolkit
 
Guest Presenter: Sophie Gohl, Heart Health Coordinator – Risk Reduction, Heart Foundation
 
Date: Tuesday, 16th March 2021
Time: 1-1:30pm AEDT
More training?
Watch more webinars here.
View CAT recipes here.
Pen CS Release Updates
CAT
  • This release brings the new category ‘Automatic High Risk’ for CV Event Risk graph, reviewed and updated Pneumococcal vaccination reports, new RACF MBS telehealth item, mappings added for screening mammograms, New STI test names added and other features and fixes.
Topbar
  • This release brings new mapping for at risk patients for influenza and COVID-19, CAT prompt option for At Risk/Transplant filter and fixed issues experienced with provider recognition for MD4 users.