March 2022 Edition
  • Welcome to the new PAT - Book your onboarding meeting now
  • CAT Plus Forum 2022 - thanks for joining us!
  • Preparing for flu season using CAT Plus
  • FLU App on Topbar - Increase influenza vaccine uptake in consultations
  • Influenza vaccination tracking and reporting
  • Further CAT resources for influenza
  • Near-real time data
  • Pen CS Security update
  • Topbar App Management Settings
  • Data mapping enhancements
  • Welcoming Dr Kean-Seng Lim to Pen CS as Chief Medical Advisor
  • Pen CS Learning: Free Webinars
  • Release updates  
Welcome to the new PAT
Schedule your onboarding meeting now

Welcome to the new PAT, with near real time incremental data for population to patient health informatics. PAT supports flexible custom reporting and presents a longitudinal view of the patient.

Benefits and New Features:
  • Daily incremental data updates
  • Build what you want when you want with custom ‘drag and drop’ reports, on-demand
  • Simple and fast report building
  • Custom dashboards provide you with a visual snapshot of what's important to you
  • Longitudinal view of data to track the same data at different points in time
  • Data visualisation chart gallery to ‘see’ and understand your data like never before
  • How has a dataset changed over time? Simply access the custom timeline reporting
  • Manage practices all in the one portal
  • Standardised reporting from many patient management systems
  • Enhanced security with two-factor authentication
  • The access is in your hands with permission-based access levels
  • Data is secure with de-identified, aggregated data from consenting general practices
CAT Plus Forum 2022 - it's a wrap
Thank you for another successful Forum!

Pen CS is committed to supporting PHNs and ACCHOs deliver population health goals through data-driven analysis. We recognise that PHNs and ACCHOs are supporting healthcare providers to deliver improved care and services to individuals at the right time, and our role is to support you.

2022 to 2023 sees the Pen CS platform evolve to meet the new needs of PHNs and ACCHOs, to collaborate and deliver high tech solutions. This includes Patient Risk Stratification, Machine Learning/AI (MLAI) tools that drive preventative healthcare and support follow up management.
 
Thank you for joining us at the recent Pen CS CAT Plus Forum 2022.

Guest presentations included:
  • Pen CS Roadmap 2022 with Pen CS CEO, Edweana Wenkart
  • PAT, population to patient health management platform
  • Person-centred Service Delivery COPD
  • Data Security with Pen CS CTO, Senthu Jegadheesan
  • Data Governance and Privacy with Dr Kean-Seng Lim
  • CSIRO Risk of Preventative Hospitalisation with Dr Sankalp Khanna
  • Doctor Engagement and Patient Activation with Dr Dan Wijeratne
  • Data Linkage with Dr David Carman and Ben Johnston
Preparing for flu season
Annual vaccination is the most important measure to prevent influenza and its complications1, and this year is even more important. During the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been less exposure to the influenza virus and lower influenza vaccine coverage. A resurgence of influenza is expected in 2022 with borders reopening.

Pen CS has a number of resources to support general practices and Aboriginal medical services with their influenza vaccinations this season.
NEW FLU App on Topbar - Opportunistically increase influenza vaccine uptake in consultations
The FLU app, now available on Topbar, is designed to help healthcare providers identify patients while in consultation who are recommended for influenza vaccination but are yet to be vaccinated, including those for whom it is funded via the NIP.

Combining the Australian Department of Health's recommendation, NIP eligibility criteria and the patient record, a notification alert automatically appears on the FLU app on Topbar when a patient has yet to be vaccinated this season.

View vaccine status and NIP eligibility at a glance. The FLU app also displays details on patients' National Immunisation Program (NIP) eligibility for the influenza vaccine, making it easy for healthcare providers to provide appropriate advice to patients.

The FLU app integrates seamlessly into healthcare providers day-to-day work flow, helping them to:
  • Identify missed vaccinations
  • Reduce the risk of vaccination double-dosing
  • Increase visibility of vaccination and NIP eligibility status
  • Support doctor-patient conversations about the need for vaccination
  • Track and achieve practice goals for vaccinations
  • Easily view patient alignment to PIP Ql measures
Influenza Vaccination Reports - Plan, monitor uptake and recall
There are multiple CAT reports available for practices to manage and track influenza vaccinations:
  • Influenza Vaccinations Report - An overview of the total influenza vaccinations received by the last vaccination date. It shows the total number of vaccines received in the current year, previous year and prior to previous year, as well as those patients with nothing recorded.
  • Influenza Vaccination by Patient Group - Track and monitor vaccine uptake matched to NIP recommendations including:
  • Strongly recommended and NIP covered
  • Strongly recommended but not covered
  • Recommended but not covered
  • Influenza Vaccine Timeline Count - Shows amount of vaccines recorded at the practice in a rolling 12 month period. The intent is inform how many vaccines were used last year so that the correct amount can be ordered for next year.
  • Cohort by MBS fee - View MBS items claimed for patients who have received the influenza vaccine.
Recipes for Influenza Vaccinations
Near-real time data - Immunisation Reports now available
Near-real time data is now available for practices with Best Practice and Medical Director for Immunisation (including COVID-19 Vaccine), MBS and visit reports.

PHNs with the PAT BI Delta Database can now access daily incremental data for the above reports. Contact your Account Manager to book your migration to PAT BI Delta, at no additional charge.

Pen CS is currently developing this functionality, to make the full dataset available, as near-real time data, by May for Best Practice and Medical Director. All major patient management systems will follow.

For more information, please contact your Account Manager.
Topbar App Management - New Settings
Practices can now manage their own Apps in Topbar.

Phase 1 of the Topbar Data Governance work for Topbar App Management is now complete and available to all practices. Practice users are able to access Topbar App Management in their settings, to:
  • View App categories - Native Apps, PHN Apps and Partner Apps
  • View the data status of each App
  • View the user guide for each App
  • Turn ON/OFF Partner and PHN Apps

Phase 2 is currently underway. This will involve creating a new role, called the 'Permission Manager'. For an App to be available for the practice, a Permission Manager must approve it first. This role will be set up in MyPen. More details to be released shortly.
Pen CS Security Updates
Pen CS Penetration Testing
Pen CS can announce that we have successfully completed penetration testing for all products, including:
  • CAT
  • Topbar
  • PAT (new)
  • PAT CAT

Penetration Certification available on request. For more information, please contact your Account Manager.
Data Mapping Enhancements
Mental Health Data Mapping
The PHN Mental Health Working Group has informed the new mental health data items that are now being implemented into your PAT.

Further updates to follow.
Welcoming Dr Kean-Seng Lim to Pen CS
We are proud to announce that Dr Kean-Seng Lim is joining Pen CS as Chief Medical Advisor.

About Kean-Seng Lim:
Dr Lim is a Mt Druitt GP and Immediate Past President of AMANSW. He has previously served on the Wentwest Board, RACGP Faculty and was 2015 General Practitioner of the Year. He co-developed the schools based obesity prevention program - SALSA, and is Co-Founder of CareMonitor, a digital Patient-Provider Partnership Platform. 

Welcome to the team!
Pen CS Learning: Free Webinars
Increasing influenza vaccination coverage in your practice using the FLU Topbar App | How to use the FLU App
Learn how the FLU App can help to increase influenza vaccination coverage in your practice, without interrupting your current workflow. You will be shown how the App works to easily identify patients eligible for the vaccine.

You will also be shown how the available CAT Influenza Reports can support vaccine uptake monitoring and tracking.

Learning Outcomes:
  • Learn how to use the FLU Topbar App to identify missed vaccinations and reduce the risk of vaccination double-dosing
  • Learn how to easily identify patients eligible for the free vaccine under the NIP
  • Learn how the FLU App can be used in conjunction with influenza CAT reports to monitor uptake and recall patients

Date: Tuesday, 29th March
Time: 1-1:30pm AEDT
Focus on the Indigenous Population for Influenza Vaccine Administration using CAT Plus
Learn how to improve influenza vaccine administration for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in your practice using CAT Plus.

Learning Outcomes:
  • Identify and recall eligible Indigenous patients for the influenza vaccine using CAT Plus
  • How to combine CAT searches to improve influenza vaccine administration
  • How to use FLU Topbar App to identify Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people 6 months and over for influenza vaccine
  • Access additional resources about CAT

Date: Thursday, 7th April
Time: 1-1:30pm AEDT
Asthma and COPD with CAT Plus
Learn how to use CAT4 in relation to respiratory disease, in particular to Asthma and COPD.

Learning Outcomes:
  • Learn how to identify patients with Asthma and COPD using available filters and reports in CAT4
  • Learn how to identify and recall patients who are also eligible for MBS items related to respiratory disease
  • Identify where to access resources to assist working with CAT4

Date: Tuesday, 19th April
Time: 1-1:30pm AEDT
More training?
Watch more webinars here.
View CAT recipes here.
Pen CS Release Updates
Topbar
Version 2.18 - April 2022
This release brings the following changes and improvements
  • Include Indigenous patients from age 30 in the Heart Health Check MBS item in the MBS App
  • Enable 'Automatic Start' as a default setting for Topbar
  • Improvement for showing indicated conditions in the Data Cleansing App
  • Improvement for CAT Plus Prompts to cover COVID-19 disease prevalence
  • Enhancement to Topbar logs to keep up to 30 log files
  • Fixed issue with permission manager role not being able to see any Apps
  • Fixed issue with Third Party Apps where a patient's medication records are showing incorrect status
  • Fixed issue with reset button in the Settings page
  • Added additional influenza vaccines under influenza mapping
  • Added new diagnosis items for heart disease and COVID At Risk
  • Added new Health Fund names that were previously not picked by Topbar
  • Added new diagnosis and pathology mappings for Best Practice CIS