OSCAR on the iPad - Your Patients Thank You

Get out your iPad. Log into OSCAR. Write a prescription. Sign it electronically with your finger. Fax it from your office to the patient's favourite pharmacy.



Welcome to your new EMR.

Schedule + Caseload Management, Together at Last

Getting to your charts as quickly and efficiently as possible is what we all want, but we don't all work the same way.

Even within a single practice, your daily workflow may change over the course of the week. You may find that some days, your workload is driven by an appointment schedule, while other days, it is driven by rounds at the hospital, extended care facility, or with several house calls.

The ability to support different workflow models has long been embedded within the OSCAR and CAISI systems, but in the past you've always had to make the choice - schedule vs caseload workflow management.

Now, as a result of an extensive integration effort, you can have both workflows enabled at the same time.

So on Monday, you can visit St. Mungo's...



... Tuesday to Friday, you meet your scheduled patients in your office...



... and Saturday, you can make your rounds in the Nebuchadnezzar...



Of course, you may decide that the caseload manager isn't just for rounds, but may be useful for tracking and grouping specific patients that may be of particular interest to you. Perhaps they are part of a clinical trial, being managed by a resident, or are recently recovering from a procedure.

You know your patients the best. OSCAR gives you the tools to care for them more efficiently.

Distributing Data – A Better Sharing Model for OSCAR

The Integrator is the CAISI designed, multi site, ethical, data sharing engine, developed and deployed as part of the joint efforts of Seaton House, St. Michael’s Hospital, and the City of Toronto.

The Integrator provides a mechanism to share when appropriate, information contained within your EMR to affiliated sites, without the need for your entire group to be hosted off the same centralized hardware. Each site maintains an independent and autonomous EMR within its own clinic, and users still benefit from the opportunity to securely see and share records amongst a larger, geographically distributed, circle of care.

This distributed model of data sharing tends to be more robust than the centralized approach, due to its inherent redundancy, and lack of any single points of failure.

Recently, a significant amount of work has been expended to extend the capabilities of the Integrator such that it could work seamlessly and natively with OSCAR based clinics. This work has further integrated the CAISI and OSCAR solutions, such that it is easy to dynamically move between scheduled and caseload based workflows for your practice.

Now, users of OSCAR, can extend their reach to a much larger circle of care, whilst maintaining their independence and autonomy within their specific clinic.

The Integrator gives you a data sharing model that is easily and granularly configured on a per clinic basis.

Integrator’s ethical consent to data sharing is very easy to manage, as it gives the patient the option to opt in and out data sharing amongst facilities, on an as needed basis. It also gives the participating clinic an appropriate level of audit trail for these consents.

OSCAR, enhanced with CAISI caseload management and augmented with Integrator data sharing is truly an exceptional platform. It is no wonder why OSCAR is now on everyone’s shortlist when they are choosing a new EMR.