Powered by Healthphone, Microsoft's Global Health solution partner for community and long term care management, CCMS is a full electronic health record and patient management system which makes patient data available to community care provider at the point of care, using a standard Microsoft interface on a laptop, PDA or smart phone. Updates can be made to care plans, test results can be accessed, and clinical processes reviewed at the time of patient care. This critical information can then be shared across the continuum of care through secure access with other healthcare providers. By employing standardized processes and workflow tools, the result is improved productivity and efficient communications among health providers.

Key Benefits

• Increased service integration, quality of care and patient safety
• Improved satisfaction for patients and their families
• Increased efficiency, productivity and staff satisfaction
• Community care organizations gain global recognition as leaders in community sector transformation

Solution Highlights

• Common community care services are integrated into a community health eco-system solution, supporting care providers with a broad range of functionality, including registration, admission, assessment, care planning, scheduling, clinical documentation, discharge and transfer.
  
• TELUS, Microsoft, Healthphone and a qualified local implementation partner provide the integration of all key components of the Community Care Management solution. It is delivered over broadband networks and is accessible through wireline or wireless devices.
  
• TELUS Community Care Management is built on a Microsoft standard and uses the Microsoft Outlook interface to provide a friendly and familiar user experience for desktop and wireless-enabled devices and smartphones. It is intuitive to use and easy to learn.
• CCMS incorporates the most robust security and privacy development capabilities in the marketplace. It complies with all provincial and national privacy and security standards and policies.
• CCMS has been enhanced with the addition of the new mobile wound management module. The additional functionality enables clinicians to manage patients in their home more effectively with electronic access to diagnostic tools, wound care forms and reports. Home and community care nurses use the mobile wound management module of CCMS to assess a patient's wound, right in their home and, using a digital camera, take pictures of the wound, complete online wound reports which are then transferred to wound care specialists in real-time. Wound care specialists can then view the photos and reports via the Internet and advise on the best treatment plan for the patient. With secure, instant access to this data, problems with wounds can be handled in the home, thereby reducing the inconvenient, unnecessary and expensive hospital re-admissions due to wound healing complications