Insight: Winter 2021

Winter 2021 | 16 RedSail Patient Chart Zach Princell, Pharm.D., Assistant Product Manager The documentation of Pharmacist Electronic Care Plans (PeCPs) has evolved into routine practice among the clinical services - oriented community and long-term care pharmacies. If you are not yet familiar with eCare Plans, allow me to quickly summarize the basics. The PeCP serves as a tool for clinically documenting patient encounters and care services to break long-established communication barriers between pharmacies, providers, and payers. eCare Plans are typically developed for use by pharmacy technology providers to give pharmacists an electronic platform for documenting and exchanging information related to patient care delivery. This may include, but is not limited to, patient demographic and medical information, drug therapy problems, clinical interventions, educational initiatives, patient goals and outcomes, active medication lists, lab measurements and vital signs, immunization records, social history, and care coordination efforts. The platform uses specific, established code systems like SNOMED-CT ® and LOINC ® that translate into clinical concepts that integrate across other software platforms in the healthcare continuum. 1 The value of documenting PeCPs shows no signs of slowing down as more and more reimbursement opportunities become available for their completion. RedSail Technologies recognized the importance of providing our customers with a technologically advanced, easy-to-use platform. eCare Plan functionality was built directly into our pharmacy management systems (PMSs), NRx and PrimeCare, on the HL7 standard - Consolidated Clinical Document Architecture (C-CDA) format, which can be best explained as a read- only medium used to dump a huge file of patient information. The file represents a snapshot of a care plan at a single point in time, as opposed to a longitudinal care plan, for transmission to other providers and teams to ensure continuity of care. 2 To take our eCare Plan solution to the next level, we wanted to build a platform on the newer HL7 standard - Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR ® ) format, which is becoming the industry standard for healthcare interoperability. The FHIR format lends itself to more flexibility when developing applications for patients and providers by making healthcare data more accessible, computable, and usable to improve outcomes. 3 The RedSail Patient Chart The RedSail Patient Chart is a clinical tool we’ve all dreamed of using as healthcare providers. It will undoubtedly take your patient care planning to the next level with multiple new features to fit all your clinical documentation needs. This new tool is a web-based application hosted in the cloud that uses a microservice architecture. The structure allows us to rapidly react and update the application based on changing customer requirements without causing system instability. The application directly integrates with NRx and PrimeCare, which will still be used to view and update patients as well as generate new eCare Plans, by redirecting the user to an internet browser window for the actual documentation. The Next Level of Pharmacist