Enhancement updates provide short alerts to new, fixed or improved Connect Care functions...
The "External Orders – Community" navigator supports prescribers when working in facilities with externally contracted pharmacy services. This includes the needed ordering tools for generating, modifying, and faxing external prescriptions. When external medication orders are entered, and the ordering prescriber is not physically on site, a nursing communication order will be required to complete the ordering workflow. Inpatient charts for such facilities now have a "header," appearing when the chart is opened, reminding about and linking to the new medication order navigator.
- Medication Orders in Continuing Care Facilities with External Pharmacies
Where a Continuing Care facility (e.g., Supported Living [SL], Long-Term Care [LTC]) uses Connect Care as its record of care but an external (community) pharmacy for the provisioning of patient medications, integrated medication management is not possible. Accordingly, prescribers must order and discontinue medications as "external orders" that will be fulfilled outside the facility. New medication orders take the form of a prescription, and any medication discontinuations need to be explicitly communicated to the pharmacy.
The "External Orders – Community" navigator supports prescribers when working in facilities with externally contracted pharmacy services. This includes the needed ordering tools for generating, modifying, and faxing external prescriptions. When external medication orders are entered, and the ordering prescriber is not physically on site, a nursing communication order will be required to complete the ordering workflow. Inpatient charts for such facilities now have a "header," appearing when the chart is opened, reminding about and linking to the new medication order navigator.
[Note: This post was updated May 2024 to reflect changes made for Launch 8.]