

Tip: Sharing Outpatient Letters to Netcare (Prescribers) If the communication is appropriate for sharing with external systems, the outpatient provider must use a letter template that includes "Netcare" in its name. The same workflow can be used to copy the communication to external systems, including the Netcare EHR and compatible community EMRs configured for eDelivery.

When prescribers see patients in outpatient settings (office, clinic, etc.), a "Communications" workflow letter typically is used to share findings with other prescribers. The responsible prescriber needs to indicate if an outpatient communication should be externally shared and, if so, whether to the primary care provider and/or referring provider. Outpatient summative documentation sharing does not happen automatically. Outpatient Communications and External Sharing

Tip: Summative Document Sharing with EMRs Tip: Summative Document Sharing with Netcare A few document signing practices can minimize shared document management burdens for receiving providers:īyte: Inpatient Summative Document Sharing In addition, inpatient summative documents can be manually routed to any provider. Signed ED provider notes are sent to the PCP only after a patient is admitted to hospital or discharged from the ED.
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Procedure Report (if sent with an appropriate Netcare letter communications template)Įmergency and Inpatient Automatic and Manual SharingĮmergency and Inpatient summative documents are automatically shared to the patient's primary care provider (PCP, if available). The following summative documents are configured for exchange to external systems:Įmergency Department Provider Note (summary of ED encounter not copied to authors)ĭischarge Summary (including Discharge Summary, Deceased Summary and Inter-facility Summary templates)Ĭonsult Letter (if sent with an appropriate Netcare letter communications template) The same summative documents may be automatically routed to primary care providers and authors who have EMRs capable of receiving such content via eDelivery. Key summative Connect Care documents transfer to Netcare. Įxternal System (Netcare, eDelivery) Sharing They may also be shared with community electronic medical records (EMR) enabled for eDelivery.

Summative documents are automatically shared with Alberta's electronic health record (EHR, Netcare). Summative documentation is suited to automatic sharing, while progress documentation is not, because it can "stand alone" without dependence on other parts of the health record. They expose clinically important developments since the last summative note. Progress notes are transactional documents. Progress documentation highlights new or changed findings or otherwise indicates what is unique to a defined period within a larger encounter. Examples include consultation notes, admission histories, discharge summaries, surgery reports, transfer notes and care paths. Summative documentation gathers all information pertinent to an encounter, organizes observations, exposes meaning, and offers a plan. There are two categories of clinical documentation: The parallel in clinical information systems happens when some document types are automatically sent to external systems via secure mail, messaging, facsimile, mail or systems interfaces. Indeed, one of the commonest forms of communication emulates mailing of consultation letters. Clinical documentation serves communication.
