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The after visit summary (AVS) is a report summarizing such things as orders, diagnoses, and notes for an encounter that you can print and send home with a patient.

On the patient portal home page, alerts will inform patients of important things such as an upcoming appointment. If a patient clicks on the alert, the related page is opened.

The ambulatory rollout schedule details when the clinical applications and the patient portal will be implemented at the more than 150 patient-care clinics at UCLA Health throughout Southern California. The clinic go-lives are occurring in waves from June 2013 through February 2014.

Applications refer to different modules of software in CareConnect that perform specific functions. For example, the Cadence application contains all the scheduling workflows, ASAP covers emergency department workflows, and Beacon enables users to perform workflows related to oncology.

Application testing refers to testing all the modules within CareConnect. Testing was done to make sure the processes and workflows contained within it work as designed to enable faculty and staff members to use the system to do their jobs. Teams used scripts, or scenarios, such as admitting a patient or scheduling a patient, to make sure the appli [..]

At-elbow support is individual help in using CareConnect provided by super users at go-live and in the weeks following go-live. Super users will also provide in-class support to end users during training.

Chart review is a function in CareConnect by which users can view reports about a patient's encounters, labs requests and results, imaging orders, procedures, medications, and more.

Clinic readiness refers to how prepared a clinic is to receive CareConnect. Determination of clinic readiness includes the evaluation of: physician and practice leadership desire to implement CareConnect; geography for support; size/staffing of clinic for training and go-live support; and dependencies/grouping across clinics and other go-live timin [..]

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