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Best Practice Toolkit for TELUS PS Suite

This toolkit includes Evidence2Practice Ontario’s complimentary EMR-integrated tools for heart failure, anxiety disorders and depression, diabetes management, and COPD – all in one spot!

The decision support tools offer a streamlined approach to support clinicians with appropriate assessment, diagnoses, and management, providing easier access to the necessary information at the point of care.

As an added bonus, Amplify Care has also included our Substitute Decision Maker tool and our Smoking Cessation tool to this package!

Interested in downloading and implementing the tool into your EMR, email EMRTools@amplifycare.com and our team would be happy to assist you.

Heart failure version 3.0 release notes – January 2025

*NEW* Re-designed and updated heart failure tool. Key highlights include:

  • Consolidated and condensed the content to provide a simplified experience to clinicians
  • Localization features have been added that enable sites to customize the visit SOAP stamp, referral, and imaging links
  • Ability to easily identify quadruple therapy and medication status for unique patients
  • A comprehensive Management Hub with panels for diagnostics, medication reconciliation, and billing
  • An updated diagnosis section for precise ejection fraction-based classification

Additional updates:

  • Support for adding ENCODE to diagnosis now available
  • Dry/target weight now captured as a custom vital
Anxiety disorders and depression version 1.1 release notes

When a confirmed diagnosis is added to the screening tool when the tool is reopened or refreshed the confirmed diagnosis is shown as anxiety.

  • Fix: Each diagnosis pulls in the appropriate/selected code to the problem list

SNOMED
370143000: Depression
21897009: Generalized Anxiety Disorder
25501002: Social anxiety
371631005: Panic Disorder
54587008: Phobia

ICD-9
311: Depression
300.02: Generalized Anxiety Disorder
300.23: Social Phobia
300.01: Panic Disorder without Agoraphobia
300.20: Phobia Not Otherwise Specified

Screening: Checkboxes for suspect conditions are unintentionally deselecting previously checked items.

  • Fix: Each checkbox is acting independently of another. Users can insert a date associated with a suspect condition. If a diagnosis is made after a condition is deemed suspect, the form will retain the date and checkbox condition in the suspect column.
Diabetes tool version 1.1 release notes

Screening & Diagnosis

  • UI Improvements and spelling errors addressed
  • Fixed issue with graphing of certain lab values
  • Canrisk score is now captured as a custom vital @CANRISK. It is recommended to re-enter the most recent score so that moving forward these values can be viewed and graphed easily.
  • Canrisk score now displays the latest value and date upon form open
  • Added confirmation flag when clearing form values
  • Added confirmation flag when updating visit frequency
  • Addressed issue where diagnosis status checkboxes were not all mutually exclusive
  • Form will now collapse when added to progress notes and chart is refreshed

Criteria Form 1.1

  • UI Improvements and spelling errors addressed
  • Form will now collapse when added to progress notes and chart is refreshed

Visit Form PSS

  • UI Improvements and spelling errors addressed
  • Specific complications monitoring – filter will now display diagnostic tests to find ECG and Stress test results
  • Now includes updated info on OHIP coverage for optometry
  • Fixed issues with displaying pop-up content
  • Fixed issue where smoking status did not pull from risk factors
  • Fixed issue where side effects did not display when pulling in latest values
  • Lab req now includes shortcuts for Quarterly and Annual lab tests
  • Improvements to Generate note functionality – updates to formatting and headers
  • Added Shringrix (shingles) to immunization section
  • Adding or updating diagnosis labels now match code being added
  • Patient Care Plan and Resources

New DM resources added for:

  • Safe Insulin Injection Techniques
  • Fit4Diabetes
COPD version 1.1 release notes

Management Visit Form PSS

  • UI and spelling issues addressed
  • Clarified language in COPD Action Plan
  • Added follow-up in reason for visit dropdown menu
  • Updated messaging for guidance on Step down therapy
  • Tool now captures LLN value for spirometry

Exacerbation: Fixed issue where Finish button was not always visible

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E2P brings together multi-disciplinary, cross-sector expertise under the joint leadership of the Centre for Effective Practice, eHealth Centre of Excellence, and North York General Hospital. Funding and strategic guidance for E2P is provided by Ontario Health in support of Ontario’s Digital First for Health Strategy.