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 is now out, available at the below link! This issue includes information on:
- Overdue endoscopy/bronchoscopy reports
- Scheduled Connect Care downtime (Feb 12) and transparent lockdown (Feb 9-12)
- Digital Medical Certificate of Death, Autopsy Consent, and Autopsy request order
- Measles history in Connect Care
- New inpatient cirrhosis care support tools
- New blood restrictions documentation workflow
- Taming In Basket - more In Basket message types to auto-expire, plus messages being permanently purged Feb 1
- Upcoming changes to display of glucometer results (Feb 3)
- New workflow for requesting bridging medications coming soon
- RNs/RPNs as authorizing providers in Connect Care coming soon
- Requesting external sendout (referred) lab tests, plus upcoming new cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) external send out test order
- Finding inpatient consult orders
- Keeping contact information up-to-date
- February Optimization (a.k.a. Thrive) classes
- 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.