SERVICE OVERVIEW
The InContext App, also known as the Clinical Information app when accessed through the Connie Portal, is a flexible, convenient tool that a care team can use to access their patient’s clinical information without leaving their own EMR. Using the app, users are authenticated and presented with their patient’s clinical information without having to log in to a separate system and initiate a new patient search.
InContext is a clinical query tool that allows users to view clinical records, including a patient’s care team, from other Connie participating organizations. Clinical information accessible using the InContext app includes prior hospitalizations, encounters, labs, radiology results, and images in a streamlined platform. The InContext app facilitates care coordination across organizations, benefiting healthcare providers and patients alike.
Core services provide a secure platform for authorized participating organizations to access patient information available through Connie. Access to our services is granted only upon adherence to Connie’s data release policy, and participants must have signed our data-sharing agreement. This policy was developed to ensure compliance with state and federal health information and interoperability rules. These rules collectively govern how and under what legal authority we are permitted to disclose data.
INCONTEXT FEATURES
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Clinical Information includes patient-specific point-of-care clinical tools:
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Clinical Data includes overdose alerts, inpatient and outpatient encounters, labs and radiology reports, summaries of care, and separate consolidated lists of the patient’s immunizations and problems. Clinical data also includes a signature service: Image Share, which allows authorized users access to view, compare, download, and import diagnostic quality images seamlessly in near real-time.
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Medication Management synthesizes the medication information found in a patient’s continuity of care documents (CCDs) and centralizes it in one place, saving time and making comparative viewing much easier.
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Care Coordination includes the patient’s care team, a history of referrals made for the patient through Connie, and any Advance Directives available from MyDirectives.
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Social Needs Data highlights when a patient has reported to a provider that they experience problems related to social issues known to impact health using z-codes.
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Single Sign-On to the Connecticut Prescription Monitoring and Reporting System’s (CPMRS) Narx report using the Prescription Drug Program (PMP) app.
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A Consent tool with two features:
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The Prevention of Harm form, enabling providers to submit written notice to Connie that the patient’s electronic health information (EHI) should not be shared with that patient because it is reasonably likely to cause substantial harm to or endanger the life or physical safety of the patient or another person.
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A provider-mediated Patient Consent Tool to support care coordination between substance use disorder (SUD) treatment and medical providers for patients enrolled in SUD treatment programs.
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An eReferral Tool to support care coordination with home-based care and social needs services. This tool provides a list of referrals providers have made for the patient through Connie.
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The CCD Federator enables participating organizations to receive CCDs into their EMR one patient at a time using a Query and Retrieve process through our CCD federator.
HELPFUL RESOURCES
Core Services Training Materials
USER STORY
Jennifer Williams | ER Nurse
As an emergency room nurse, it's important for me to access the medical history of a new patient if they arrive without prior medical records, especially if they're outside my EMR. Without leaving my EMR, I can launch the InContext app and see additional information about the patient from outside of my EMR without additional logins or patient searches.
Please contact your Account Manager for more information on additional services or email us at info@conniect.org!