Our monthly newsletter for prescribers, Between the Charts, summarizes key news items, Epic system updates, efficiency tips and extras that will help prescribers optimize their Connect Care user experience, all in two pages.
The next issue covers both November and December and is now out, available at the below link! This issue includes information on:
- Connect Care User Satisfaction Survey (2025 edition) results and action plan
- Lab routing optimization (action may be needed by mixed-context providers)
- December and January Optimization (a.k.a. Thrive) classes, including new 1:1 sessions on cleaning up In Basket backlog
- Removal of In Basket messages older than 180 days
- "Lab Notifications" column block in inpatient Patient Lists
- Digital Medical Certificate of Death
- Re-personalization needed for:
- Diet/nutrition order sets and Patient List columns
- Induction of Labour order set
- Drug-disease warning filters
- Fetal/neonatal demise symbol on Storyboard
- Using the Admission Navigator for admission medication reconciliation in rural emergency departments
- "Coordination of Care Recipient" for merged duplicative lab requisitions
- Automatic cancellation of incomplete lab orders after discharge from an inpatient unit
- Pop-up when attempting to cancel testing of an already submitted lab specimen
- Coming in 2026: RNs/RPNs as authorizing providers in Connect Care
- And more!
The previous issues can still be accessed, via the archive in the Connect Care Manual.
If you have any feedback on this issue or have a suggestion for content you'd like included in a future issue, please send us an email.