Digital Health News

The eHealth Centre of Excellence has created an Opioid Management Tool for TELUS PSS, and has now developed a version for OSCAR EMR!

The Opioid Management Tool is designed to enable primary care clinicians to deliver safe pain management practices and prescribing of opioids to their patient population.

Based on National Pain Centre’s 2017 Guidelines for Opioids for Chronic Non Cancer Pain, the tool assists clinicians in conducting a complete assessment and provides a tailored management plan that incorporates the patient’s goals, while adhering to current best practices.

The Opioid Management Tool comes with a list of functionalities to assist with clinical workflows. These include:

• Populating the most relevant information for a medical visit

• Creating a patient summary  

• Extensive list of screening resources:

• Opioid Agreement 

• Brief Pain Inventory 

• Opioid Risk Tool 

• Depression PHQ-9 Form 

• Urine Drug Test Forms

• Opioid Compliance Form 

The following tools are available:

• GAD7 (Generalized Anxiety Disorder)

• Calculate Morphine Equivalents 

• Opioid Tapering  

The following patient handouts are also available:

• Opioid Handout 

• Treatment Agreement 

• Naloxone Handout 

• Patch Exchange 

You can download the tool directly from our community portal!

Please click here to download the PDF.

Recently, Canada Healthcare Technology ran a feature on our eCE Automates division and interviewed our Managing Director, Dr. Mohamed Alarakhia, to learn more about the benefits of implementing bots into primary care workflows.

Click here to take a look! or scroll through the PDF below (the article is on page 10): 

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The eHealth Centre of Excellence can provide EMR Searches for TELUS PSS, OSCAR and QHR Accuro EMRs that will support primary care providers to quickly and efficiently identify patients from their ambulatory roster who are now eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine. 

In alignment with the criteria set out in the province's Phase Two vaccination roll-out plan, these queries will assist primary care providers to pull lists of patients with certain health conditions that fall within the Highest Risk, High Risk, and At Risk categories.

NEW as of April 27: We're also deploying a new EMR search developed by Dr. Mario Elia that will help primary care providers to quickly identify patients in hot spot communities who are now eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine by post code.

For more information and for more vaccine support for primary care, visit our COVID-19 vaccination resource.

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St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton continues to showcase their leadership in the digital health space through the successful integration of CognisantMD's Ocean Platform and the Epic Hospital Information System.

This ground-breaking integrationwill allow electronic referrals from the hospital into the community and also from primary care and specialists’ electronic medical records into the Hospital Information System, and will supports integrated care within Ontario Health Teams (OHTs).

As well, this integration uses a modern SMART on FIHR approach, which is the most recent worldwide standard of secure data transfer for health care technology, specifically addressing the need to share and protect personal health information.

For full details, refer to the full press release.

Kitchener, ON (March 30, 2021) - The launch of an integration that expands the innovative provincial eReferral initiative, the Ontario eServices Program, connects primary care providers with home and community care teams.  Please view press release below for more information. 

Please click here to download the PDF.

Please click here to download the PDF.

What is changing with the Telus PSS update?

The latest release of Telus PSS (version 5.18) will now automatically calculate the morphine milligram equivalent (MME) score for patients who are currently taking an opioid medication.

Click here for full details on the Telus PSS (version 5.18) update.

What is the difference between MEQ and MME?

If you're familiar with our Opioid Management Toolkit, you may be wondering what the difference is between the tool's ability to calculate morphine equivalent (MEQ) vs. the update from Telus PS Suite that now includes the calculations of MME.

The MME and MEQ both provide equivalent information to the end user. The two terms can therefore be used interchangeably as they offer the same information output.

Telus PS Suite Update

Here is an example of how the MME will appear in Telus PS Suite:

Opioid Management Toolkit

Here is an example of how the MEQ appears in the Opioid Management Toolkit: 

This MEQ information will continue to be displayed in a convenient and easily accessible location, visible alongside screens, information sheets, and other resources that are applicable to the management of opioid prescriptions.

Interested in a demo? To see a demo of the Opioid Management toolkit and/or to learn more about the MEQ calculations, click here to complete the sign up sheet to set up a coaching session.

Did you know? You can download our EMR decisions support tools - at no cost to you - directly from our community portal!