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On May 1, 2024, changes (called “enhancements”) will be made to the BORN Information System (BIS) to fix errors in the system, remove data elements that are no longer needed, and change or add new data elements to improve clarity and better align with clinical practice.
They are pleased to share some educational resources to help you and your team prepare for these changes. This includes five resources, which are described in more detail below:
1. 2024 Perinatal Enhancements Clinical Rationale document
2. One-page summary of key changes
3. Type of Labour decision tree
4. Customizable slide deck
5. Perinatal Enhancement Webinar
Resource 1 - Attachment 1 – 2024 Perinatal Enhancement Clinical Rationale Document
This document includes a description of the major changes (type of labour, type of birth, maternal/fetal blood group genotyping), a summary of all other changes affecting perinatal, neonatal intensive care, and midwifery data elements, and includes helpful visuals such as screenshots of the updated data elements in the BIS. Please read through the sections of this document that are relevant to your role and setting and save it electronically to refer to as needed for clarification.
Resource 2 – One page summary of key changes
This document summarizes the key changes at a glance.
Resource 3 - Type of labour decision tree
This visual can be used to identify how to enter the “type of birth” into the BIS using the new definitions. BORN encourages you to save this document electronically (or print it) to refer to as needed when retrospectively entering in type of birth into the BIS.
Resource 4 – Customizable slide deck
This PowerPoint slide deck includes general information on enhancements, a description and rationale of the major changes, an overview of all other changes, and ideas for local presentation content. While all BIS data partners are welcome to review the content of these slides, they hope that managers, educators, and BIS super-users can adapt and add to these slides for their own use to offer educational in-services with their teams.
Resource 5 – Perinatal Enhancement Webinar (accessed via BIS Help section)
On March 5 and 6, 2024, BORN Ontario held webinars about the upcoming changes to the BIS. A recording of the session is available in the Help Section of the BIS (you will need a BIS account to login and access it). They encourage you to view the webinar recording, if you have not already.
BORN hopes these resources will help you learn about what changes are being made and why and can be used as reference documents as you adjust to these changes. If you have questions about the changes to the BIS, please reach out to your manager, clinical educator, or super-users on your team. You may also contact your BORN Regional Coordinator (list available here) with any questions you have.
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