Is anyone using this product? If yes, I’m interested in the kinds of clinical pathways (or other use-cases). Also, general comments re functionality, limitations, etc. would be good particularly with respect to its predecessor Orion Clinical Workflow Suite. 
CC: @federico
Hi,
Confusingly “Care Pathways” is simply the modern name for what was previously called “Clinical Workflow Suite”. Similar to how “Concerto” became “Clinical Portal”.
Regardless of the name, we’ve been rolling out a number of new use cases in the South Island. Most recently is a set of documents to support Christchurch Ophthalmology replacing their existing paper-based process to support their move to a new premises. This has been received very well by both the administrators and the clinicians in that service.
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Thanks, @gavin.millar - so an upgrade really.
Hi we are just looking into this process at the moment at NMH so I am keen to follow this link thanks @parag for putting it up.
Thanks for that. I’m interested also to know what other services in Christchurch are successfully using Care Pathways. We are looking at expanding Care Pathways at SDHB, and so successful examples use in CDHB that we can leverage off would be useful.
Another question: Can Care Pathways help with two-way communication between hospital sepcialists and GPs about a patient? Would a GP get alerted to a communication entered in Care Pathways by a hospital specialist, or would they have to know it was there to look up?
I understand @gyoung has been working on Care Pathways as well so would be interested to hear examples of successful implementations in Christchurch from him too.
I look forward to catching up with you next week in Chch
Hi Damon
Happy to show you the work I have done here in Canterbury using Care Pathways.
If you have some time you are up next week let me know and I will tee something up.
Gavin
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Some other services running within Care Pathways include (CDHB) Maternity and West Coast Mental Health along with Community Rehab, Older Persons Health & Rehab and Community Medications. There are also a number of other Care Pathways forms outside of individual services such as the Patient Transport form.
We’ve come a long way in terms of understanding how to efficiently build and maintain Care Pathways documents. Our increased efficiency has led to improved adoption of solutions which has been quite gratifying.The key is that the discussion needs to start from understanding the current business need and how it can best be satisfied. Direct replication of existing forms (paper or prior tech) into Care Pathways tends to result in “functional but disliked” solutions.
Care Pathways documents can be sent through to GPs upon completion via HealthLink if they are relevant, this ends up being similar to how GPs receive other Discharge Summaries today. This is already in place for the Maternity documents, the GP gets a “discharge” for the mother and also a document about the new baby so they can enroll them.
Other types of integration to primary care could be put together if it made sense for a particular use case.
Looking forward to our catchup next week to cover off Brief Clinical Notes and Patient Contact Record .