2021-06-09

Improved Goals of Care Designation Order

We've previously posted about how goals of care designations can be viewed, modified and maintained in Connect Care.

The order composer used to record a goals of care designation (GCD) has been enhanced (now available in all Connect Care modules) (click the icon to view the screenshot; below numbers correspond to numbers in screenshot).

  1. Embedded summaries about the attributes of a particular GCD are more consistent and informative.
  2. Links are provided to clinician-friendly GCD definitions as well as to guidance about goals of care workflows.
  3. Clinicians can select more than one participant for GCD decisions, as appropriate.
  4. A goals of care tracking record entry can be generated from a link embedded in the GCD order.

Goals of Care Designations persist across encounters, but need to be re-validated at the beginning of in-patient encounters.