September 2021 Edition
  • Pen CS 2021 National PHN Conference
  • Presentation Slides
  • Social Trivia Winners
  • Pen CS Awards - Winners
  • PAT BI Delta - Available Now
  • Pen CS Events
  • Pen CS Learning: Free Webinars
  • Release updates 
Pen CS National PHN Conference 2021
We would like to thank all those who attended the Pen CS 2021 National PHN Conference. Due to the COVID-19 lockdown situation, we did things a little differently this year with a virtual event. We hope you had fun and we look forward to seeing you at our Conference next year (hopefully in-person)!

We truly appreciate your support. In the spirit of continuous improvement to make this Conference of more value to you, please take the time to leave any feedback or comments in the short feedback form.

Looking forward to meeting you again next time!
Conference Presentation Slides Available Now
The slides for the Pen CS 2021 National PHN Conference presentations are available now.

Recordings of the Conference sessions will be available soon, in case you missed out on some of the sessions. Watch this space!
National PHN Conference Social Trivia Winners
Congratulations to the Winners of Social Trivia!

Thank you to all those that attended the Social Trivia session at the National PHN Conference and congratulations to the winners!

The top 3 winners of the trivia were:
  1. Liam Wright - Healthy North Coast
  2. Arturo Chamorro - Central and Eastern Sydney PHN
  3. Shirlene Brokenshire - Western NSW Primary Health Network

Questions covered a range of topics from facts about PHNS and ACCHOs to Australian Digital Health information.

Great work to the winners! 
2021 Pen CS Awards Winners
Congratulations to the Inaugural 2021 Pen CS Awards Winners
Pen CS is delighted to announce the Award winners for the inaugural 2021 Pen CS Awards.

The Pen CS Awards recognise data-driven quality improvement in General Practices and Aboriginal Medical Services and were celebrated in a virtual award ceremony, with presenters including Jacinta Price, Australian Activist and former Deputy Mayor of Alice Springs Town Council; Dr Tom Wenkart, CEO, Macquarie Health Corporation; Dr Ross Walker, Cardiologist, Sydney Heart Health Clinic; and Gillian Mason, Board Member, Australasian Institute of Digital Health.

Congratulations to the below winners:
  1. Closing the Gap Award - Aboriginal Medical Services Co-operative (AMS Redfern)
  2. Quality Improvement Initiative of the Year Award - Mandurah and Lakelands Doctors
  3. Data-driven Clinical Excellence Award - MQ Health General practice
  4. Research in General Practice Award - Faulconbridge Health Centre
  5. Data Quality Award - Lejeune Family Medical Practice
  6. Digital Innovation Award - Terrey Hills Medical Centre
  7. Patient-centred Care Award - Chatswood medical and dental centre
  8. CAT Plus Super User Award - Forbes Medicine and Mind
  9. Multidisciplinary Care Award - Hunters Hill Medical Practice
Product Announcements
PAT BI Delta - Available Now
The new PAT BI Delta is a data platform for value-based, patient-centred healthcare.

We are excited to announce that PAT BI Delta is now available for your PHN.

Please contact your Account Manager for your onboarding and to receive advice on the setup process.
Pen CS Events
CAT Plus User Group Meeting

The CAT Plus User Group is a forum for discussion, updates and information sharing. We hope you can join us and welcome your ideas and questions.

Join us at the CAT Plus User Group Meeting:

Date: Tuesday 19th October 2021
Time: 12:00 - 1:00PM (AEST)
Pen CS Learning: Free Webinars
Overview of CAT CV Event Risk Report in General Practice 
This webinar focuses on the CV Event Risk reports in CAT that would be suitable for quality improvement activities.
 
Learning outcomes:
  • Find at risk patient for cardiovascular disease using CAT
  • Perform health assessments in general practice using CAT
  • Identify patients with CV event risks as a part of PIP QI measure using CAT Plus
  • Access resources to assist working with CAT Plus for CV Event Risk

For General Practitioners, Practice Nurses, Practice Managers, PHN Practice Support Team, and PHN staff

Date: Thursday, 7th October
Time: 1-1:30pm AEST
Improve Cancer Screening Participation using CAT Plus
Learn how CAT Plus can be used to efficiently recall and manage patients for cancer screening and reporting in your practice.
 
Learning Outcomes:
  • Be familiar with the available functionality around cancer screening in CAT Plus
  • Be shown examples for reports working with available filters in CAT4
  • Creating greater health care autonomy – Recall patients not up-to-date with their cancer screening status using Recall CAT and CAT Plus Prompts​
  • Know where to get help and how to access resources to assist working with CAT Plus
 
For General Practitioners, Practice Nurses, Practice Managers, PHN Practice Support Team, and Practice Receptionist
 
Date: Thursday, 21st Oct
Time: 1-1:30pm AEST
More training?
Watch more webinars here.
View CAT recipes here.
Pen CS Release Updates
CAT
  • Added new features for Multi-location practices
  • Multi-location Filter options are added for the below filter tabs 
  • General Filter 
  • Date Range(Visit) Filter 
  • MBS Filter
  • Added new mapping for FOBT
  • Added New report called EXTRACT which identifies COPD patients at risk of exacerbations – available to selected practices only
  • Fixed issue where the de-identified extract was unable to load
  • Fixed issue for Zedmed practices to pick up COVID-19 Immunisation information
  • Fixed issue with MBS date range visit filter
  • Fixed issue with Medication filter, where the patients were incorrectly reported for Hypertensive and Lipid-lowering medications.
  • Fixed issue for Genie practices where DOB was not being picked up correctly.
  • Removed Diagnosis “Descriptions” field from the de-identified file
  • Removed COVID-19 At Risk Vaccination Status report
  • Updated COVID-19 Vaccination name as per new guidelines.
Topbar
  • New feature added to collect analytics data and recording into ELK
  • Edits made to the user telecoms are now displayed in Topbar in the Provider Details Request.
  • Topbar now defaults to install SQL Express 2016.