COVID-19 Vaccination Supports for Primary Care

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COVID-19 AEFI reporting through eReferral

The eCE Automates team at the eHealth Centre of Excellence has launched a process for our bot, Bernie, that can help 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.

BENEFITS:

Ensures your patients’ immunization records are up-to-date
Replaces a tedious and time-consuming manual process
Enables you to place your focus where it needs to be – on delivering high quality patient care

HOW IT WORKS:

OntarioMD's Health Report Manager (HRM) is now delivering COVID-19 vaccination reports to primary care clinicians using certified EMRs. For more on HRM, please visit the OntarioMD website.

The bot runs a list of searches/algorithms to produce a list of patients, and then opens the record for each patient on the list. Bernie then locates the patient’s HRM COVaxON vaccination report in the patient's chart, confirms COVID-19 vaccine details and automatically updates the CPP immunization section of the patient’s chart.

For a more detailed description of how this works, please refer to our FAQ.

Further questions? Please contact [email protected]!

EMR vaccine eligibility search for third and fourth doses

Although two doses of the COVID-19 vaccine provides strong protection against the virus, a third dose has been showed to increase protection and a fourth dose may be required for those patients with an increased risk of infection.

Our EMR vaccine eligibility search will help primary care clinicians to quickly identify patients from their ambulatory roster who may be eligible for doses as recommended by the Ministry of Health. This search is being updated in line with the rapidly changing criteria on a regular basis.

You can access the search tool by downloading it directly from our community portal.

Other resources

OntarioMD COVaxON training sessions:

OntarioMD is offering COVaxON training for primary care practices that have been identified by their local public health unit to administer COVID19 vaccinations, with these sessions demonstrating how to access and use the COVaxON Vaccination Management System. The COVaxON system enables the Ministry of Health, Vaccination Locations, and staff to collect the necessary data related to COVID-19 immunization administration.

COVID-19 Allergy/Immunology eConsult BASE™ Managed Specialty Group:

In response to the COVID-19 vaccination roll out, the Ontario eConsult Centre or Excellence in partnership with Public Health, OMA, OntarioMD, Ontario Health and the MOH have created a COVID-19 Allergy/Immunology BASE™ Managed Specialty Group.

This group enables physicians and nurse practitioners to ask COVID-19 vaccine allergy related clinical questions to Allergy and Clinical Immunology specialists electronically and receive a response within days. The general COVID-19 infectious disease group continues to be available.

Paxlovid Resources