Pen CS General Practice
November eNews

  • NAIDOC 2020 'Always Was, Always Will Be'
  • New Look CAT4 - Behind the tool
  • How to improve data quality in your practice - Practical tips by Matthias Merzenich
  • Digital Health Institute Summit - Pen CS in Global Speaker Showcase
  • Release Notes
  • Webinars
  • CAT Plus and Cancer
  • New Look CAT4
  • Asthma and COPD with CAT4
NAIDOC Week 2020 'Always Was, Always Will Be'
Pen CS would like to acknowledge the 'National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee' week to celebrate the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
CAT4.3 - Coming in November
Pen CS has refreshed your trusted clinical audit tool, with a clean, user-friendly look, to navigate the tool with ease and increased efficiency.

For a sneak peek, watch Pen CS UI/ UX Designer, Felipe Camara, walk us through his design process to create the fresh new interface of CAT4.3.
For more information, register for New Look CAT4 Webinar.

This update has NEW Minimum Technical Requirements. Check if your practice meets these specifications. If unsure, please contact Pen CS Support.

NEW Minimum Technical Requirements are:
Operating System: Microsoft Windows Server 2012/ Windows 8
Microsoft .NET Framework: 4.6
How to Improve Data Quality in Your Practice - Practical Tips with Matthias Merzenich
Having good quality data supports a practice to run more efficiently and allows for more recall based on the needs of the patient.

Read Part 3 of the interview with data expert, Matthias Merzenich who is Pen CS Clinical Assurance Manager to learn more about:

  • Tips for ensuring data quality best practice
  • Examples of data quality best practice
  • Improved patient outcomes for data quality best practice
3 min read
Digital Health Institute Summit - Global Speaker Showcase
Join Pen CS at the Digital Health Institute Summit's inaugural Global Speaker Showcase which features leaders, strategists, innovators and expert practitioners in digital health from around the world.

Our Managing Director, Edweana Wenkart, will be presenting on two topics:
  1. Disease tracker: Patient to population outbreak surveillance and rapid response
  2. Harnessing data for clinical decision support in general practice

The Digital Health Institute Summit will run from the 5th - 25th November 2020.
CAT Plus and Cancer
Learn how to use CAT Plus for cancer screening and reporting and recall of patients.

Learning Outcomes:
  • Be familiar with the available functionality around cancer screening in CAT Plus
  • Be shown examples for reports working with available filters in CAT4
  • Creating greater health care autonomy – Recall patients who are not up-to-date with their cancer screening status using Recall CAT and CAT Plus Prompts.
  • Identify where to access resources to assist working with CAT Plus

Date: Thursday, 12th November 2020
Time: 1-1:30pm AEST

New Look CAT4
CAT4.3 is coming soon to practices. This demo will provide the first look at a fresh interface of CAT4.

Date: Thursday, 19th November 2020
Time: 1-1:30pm AEST

Asthma and COPD with CAT Plus
Learn how to use CAT4 in relation to respiratory disease, in particular to Asthma and COPD.

Learning Outcomes:
  • Learn how to identify patients with Asthma and COPD using available filters and reports in CAT4
  • Learn how to identify and recall patients who are also eligible for MBS items related to respiratory disease
  • Identify where to access resources to assist working with CAT4

Date: Tuesday, 24th November 2020
Time: 1-1:30pm AEST

Previous Webinars
Find more webinars here.