Digital Health Supports for COVID-19

A common Covid Therapy Referral Form has been developed to support primary care with referrals to Covid Clinical Assessment Centres. This form has been collaboratively designed and standardized to support care across the West region. A PDF version of this form is available here.

Paxlovid Resources –  Available in PS Suite, Oscar and Accuro, the eHealth Centre of Excellence is offering several digital health resources for Paxlovid including prescription/referral forms (in collaboration with Partnering For Quality) and searches for patients eligible for Paxlovid.

To access these resources and find out more information please click here.

Now available in TELUS PS Suite and nearing completion in Oscar: we have been working with Ontario Health to develop a Post-COVID-19 Condition tool that captures and tracks the progression of symptoms associated with the condition over time. It also promotes supported self-management, allowing for a comprehensive plan to be built based on presenting symptoms. In addition, a patient handout with symptom-specific links to available resources can be printed directly from the tool.

You can download this tool directly from our community portal.  

We are pleased to offer a bot process to support primary care clinicians to seamlessly and efficiently document their patients’ COVID-19 vaccinations within their electronic medical records (EMRs).

We’re here to support you during this challenging time and are offering this virtual assistant at no cost to you or your clinic. Visit our COVID-19 Vaccination Supports resource page for more information!

We are offering a Vaccine Eligibility EMR Search to assist primary care with the identification and prioritization of patients who may be eligible for a third or fourth dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. It can be downloaded directly from our community portal. This  search will be updated regularly as new eligibility requirements are released by the province. 

Find more information on our COVID-19 Vaccination Supports webpage!

The Ontario eConsult Centre of Excellence has created a COVID-19 BASE™ managed eConsult specialty group: this group enables physicians and nurse practitioners to ask clinical questions to infectious disease specialists electronically and receive a response within days.

In response to the COVID-19 vaccination rollout, the Ontario eConsult Centre of Excellence in partnership with Public Health, OMA, OntarioMD, Ontario Health and the MOH have created a COVID-19 Allergy/Immunology BASE™ Managed Specialty Group. More information is available on our COVID vaccinations resource page.

The Ontario eConsult Centre of Excellence has also created a Provincial  Post-COVID-19 BASE™ Managed Specialty Group. Find out more here and please connect with our eServices team if you require support!

Virtual care can reduce the spread of COVID-19 by keeping people home and out of waiting rooms, while also enabling clinicians to screen symptoms remotely and offer medical advice with no risk of exposure. However, even post-COVID, when patients don’t need to be seen for an in-person appointment, virtual care supports convenient, quick, accessible, and equitable care. Learn more about virtual care here!

Clinics are able to provide patients with much-needed assessments and forms through online patient messaging. eForms can also be used for COVID-19 screening and assessment. Over 10,000 COVID-19 related forms were completed between March - December 2020.

Interested in using Patient Forms? Get started here!