20 | Big News in Transitions of Care with Dr. Linda Slocombe
09/16/21 • 29 min
Join us as we learn about Alberta’s new ‘Home to Hospital to Home Transitions Guideline’. Dr. Slocombe explains the 6 components that together help patients successfully transition from home to hospital to home. She explains the roles of primary care and acute care, and the significant positive impact this guideline can have on continuity and the patient experience. Best of all, once established, it could mean less work for your practice!
Home to Hospital to Home Transitions Guideline
Information on CII/CPAR
Also, check out Podcasts #15 & #16 for more information about CII/CPAR.
Join us as we learn about Alberta’s new ‘Home to Hospital to Home Transitions Guideline’. Dr. Slocombe explains the 6 components that together help patients successfully transition from home to hospital to home. She explains the roles of primary care and acute care, and the significant positive impact this guideline can have on continuity and the patient experience. Best of all, once established, it could mean less work for your practice!
Home to Hospital to Home Transitions Guideline
Information on CII/CPAR
Also, check out Podcasts #15 & #16 for more information about CII/CPAR.
Previous Episode
19 | Tips for Enhancing Access (Part 2) with Dr. Ernie Schuster
Join us as we talk to Dr. Ernie Schuster about practical strategies that physicians and clinic teams can take to provide timely access to care and optimize the opportunity for continuity of care. Highlights include:
- Specific strategies to balance your supply of appointments with the demand for them
- The value of eliminating ‘backlog’ for providing just-in-time care
- Using the medical home team to increase efficiency
(NOTE: To listen to Part 1, go to Episode 11: Tips for Enhancing Access with Dr. Janet Craig)
Resources:
HQCA Primary Healthcare Panel Reports
Next Episode
21 | Streamlining Your Practice Part 1: Tech Forward Family Practice with Dr. Kelly MacGregor
In part 1 of a 3-part series on streamlining family practice, we learn about the unique 'tech forward' approach that Dr. Kelly MacGregor and her colleagues have adopted at their clinic. While the overall approach may not suit every practice, there may be elements that family docs could consider testing in their own practices.
Listen as Dr. MacGregor describes how the strategies she uses have resulted in better standardization, increased efficiency and improved patient safety. (In Part 2, she'll describe more about privacy concerns and financial requirements related to use of technology.)
Resources mentioned by Dr. MacGregor that CMPA has approved for Canadian use and meet current privacy legislation requirements*:
- Electronic medical record - Accuro by QHR Technologies
- Secure, EMR integrated messaging - Medeo Healthmail
- Secure, EMR integrated patient questionnaires and forms - Ocean by CognisantMD
- Remote, EMR integrated cloud based fax - Unite Communications
- Online scheduler - Accuro by QHR Technologies
- Appointment reminders - Cliniconex
- Virtual platform - Doxy.me
- VOIP phone service - Line2
- Multi platform, multi user smart phrase manager - TextExpander
*Not intended as product endorsement
If you like this episode you’ll love
Episode Comments
Generate a badge
Get a badge for your website that links back to this episode
<a href="https://goodpods.com/podcasts/one-nail-at-a-time-insights-for-building-your-patients-medical-home-237546/20-big-news-in-transitions-of-care-with-dr-linda-slocombe-26467401"> <img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/goodpods-images-bucket/badges/generic-badge-1.svg" alt="listen to 20 | big news in transitions of care with dr. linda slocombe on goodpods" style="width: 225px" /> </a>
Copy