Physician Communication - August 24, 2023

Change

Change Date

Change Summary

Benefits

Review/Approval

Bowel Management Order Set

26 July 2023

Visual changes done to collapse reminders and bowel management medications.

Cleaner view.

PLC

Changes to Transfer Discharge Letter

27 July 2023

- Change name of report to Transfer Discharge Summary

- Remove Labs from formatted data

- Move all formatted data to bottom of report

- Renamed section from "Results" to "Additional Patient Information"

- Addition of a new section for current active medications.

- Removed “Barriers and Goals” section

PLC

Image Release From – Order

02 August 2023

-Image Release Form (Push to Grid) is now available as an Order in Web Acute

-Output will print out in Medical Imaging for MI Dept to fulfil request.

** NOTE Between 11 PM and 7 AM, you must call on-call imaging tech for urgent and STAT image push.

Workflow can move from paper to Meditech.

PLC/MI Dept.

New “Radiologist Order Set”

August 23^rd 2023

This new order set is meant to be used ONLY by radiologists to place post-op orders when performing an interventional radiology procedure.

PLC

New “Outpatient referral to Preop Clinic – Anesthesia Consult Review” order

22-August-2023

This new order is to communicate to booking clerk that the patient needs to return to the pre-op clinic for a second assessment before the surgery.

PLC

New “Outpatient Follow-Up to Surgical Clinic Order”

23-August-2023

This new order is to be used ONLY by surgeons that practice in the outpatient surgical clinic. It’s purpose is to notify the clinics staff that the patient requires a post-op follow-up appointment.

Changes to “Outpatient Dietitian Services” Referral

23-August-2023

This is an optimization of the Outpatient Dietitian Referral. The title of referral was Changed to “Outpatient dietitian/ Diabetes Education Services” , and Improved list of “Reason for referral”

PLC

Item

Summary

Review/Approval

Physician Support Email

Yukon-Hospitals-Meditech_Educators@yukonhospitals.ca

Question Correction on Discharge Summary

Comment questions for Barriers to Discharge is being updated to fix a background issue. This will affect the Discharge Summary Document.

As of August 30^th, you will see 2 comment questions for each category of Discharge Barriers (Nursing, Rehab, Social)--one question for comments entered before August 30^th and one for comments entered after August 30^th.

Approximately 1 week later, this will be corrected, and you will only see one comment question for each discharge barrier category.