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Featuring guest speaker Dr. Joan Chan, the eHealth Centre of Excellence’s QBIC (Quality Based Improvements in Care) team recently hosted a webinar highlighting mental health tools and resources for the electronic medical record (EMR). Dr. Chan, a family physician with the Guelph Family Health Team (FHT), shares her firsthand experience with using these tools and explains how she’s adapted them into her clinical workflow.   

Features of the mental health toolkit are highlighted below:

EMR tool for Mental Health visits

 The eHealth Centre of Excellence has developed an EMR tool to assist with your mental health encounters that:

• Standardizes documentation with an easy to use  Encounter Assistant
• Is based off of the new HQO Quality Guidelines for Major Depression Disorder
• Directly links to screening tools (PHQ-9, GAD-7), resources and referrals
• Includes a new Patient handout feature, which enables you to:
  • Create an individualized treatment plan and educational handout for your patients 
  • Reinforce your in-visit health teaching
  • Create a medication plan and new medication education
  • Customize self-care activities and referrals

Added features for tablets

• Enhance your practice by using our “QBIC Depression” tablet eForm
• eForm links directly with our mental health visit Encounter Assistant (described above) to help auto-populate information in the EMR 
• Be able to review your patient’s subjective information before you enter the exam room

If you are interested in more information, please contact Change Managment Specialist Tara Lonergan at: [email protected].