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APPENDIX ii OTHER TOOLS TO SUPPORT FAMILY PRACTICE IN BC
The BC Ministry of Health launched the Toolkit in 2004 in response to BC physician
requests for an IT solution for efficient organization and retrieval of their chronic care
patient information. This web-based patient registry system is free to BC physicians
and provides a number of functions to support optimal chronic care management. It is
especially useful to practices not equipped with an EMR. Currently there are more than
1000 Toolkit users in BC. The provinces of Saskatchewan and Manitoba and the Yukon
Territory have also adopted the Toolkit in their own jurisdictions.
Use of the Toolkit allows general practitioners and their MOAs to:
• electronically complete patient flow sheets based on the BC Clinical Guidelines
(developed through the MSP/BCMA Guidelines and Protocols Advisory
Committee)
• securely share the flow sheets with members of their practice and other health
care providers for better continuity of patient care
• automatically generate clinical and administrative reports based on the patient
flow sheet data:
o personalized patient flow sheets that compile a patient’s chronic care
information into a single record that can be printed out and maintained in
the patient’s chart
o practice profiles that provide numeric and graphic age/sex summaries of
the practice’s population of patients with particular chronic diseases
recall reports that list the practice’s patients who are due for their next
office visit, along with the tests or procedures that are due, according
to the clinical guideline recommendations
o run charts that graph changes in the practice’s clinical processes and
patient health outcomes over a period of time, and allow the physician to
compare his/her practice to larger groups (e.g., to all Toolkit users in BC)
o patient education reports that give patients valuable information on their
particular chronic disease, along with graphs of their progress over time
on a number of relevant clinical measures (e.g., A1C levels, blood
pressure)
o data extremes reports that enable the physician to easily identify patients
who fall below the practice average on a number of disease relevant
clinical process and health outcome measures
o key measures reports indicating patients at risk (not at target) for key
combinations of clinical indicators for particular conditions
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