Skip Ribbon Commands
Skip to main content
SharePoint
dehaze
Practice Management Program
Primary Care Networks Program Management Office
Toward Optimized Practice
search

News

​Articles, information and postings on the latest updates to the Community Information Integration and Central Patient Attachment Registry (CII/CPAR) initiative.

News



June 2022
You may have noticed new patient reports coming directly to your EMR. Alberta Health Services has initiated a change and clinics enabled on eDelivery are now receiving Summative Notes documents in their EMR. 


 

June 2022
Community Information Integration and the Central Patient Attachment Registry (CII/CPAR) are transforming the way healthcare information is shared in Alberta. 


 
May 2022
Today more than 1,200 physicians, nurse practitioners and allied health professionals are participating in CII/CPAR and the program continues to break more ground. Important, sometimes lifesaving community information is now being shared with Alberta Netcare through physician, nurse practitioner and team participation in the program. 


 
April 2022
New functionality to enhance information sharing launched in April. You may be seeing some new documents in your EMR inbox and notice something different in Alberta Netcare Portal. AHS is now routing summative notes from Connect Care to your EMR and the CPAR primary provider now displays in Netcare.


  

See your name in lights...er Alberta Netcare Portal!
March 2022

Family physicians and pediatricians participating in the Central Patient Attachment Registry (CPAR) will notice something different in Alberta Netcare Portal in April. Their name will appear prominently in the demographics area of their patient's records in Netcare. 


 
January 2022
Many Albertans are reporting that the pandemic is impacting their mental health. For patients whose family physician is participating in Community Information Integration and the Central Patient Attachment Registry (CII/CPAR), basic event information about patient emergency department visits or hospitalizations is shared with their family physician. Read more on how that information sharing is informing and improving patient care including their mental health.



January 2022

Community Encounter Digests, which share select information from the physician office to Netcare, are increasingly informing care decisions in emergency departments and hospitals. Participation in Community Information Integration and the Central Patient Attachment Registry (CII/CPAR) is transforming the way healthcare information is shared in Alberta. Dr. Chris Le, an Edmonton Zone family physician, describes in the short video at the link how he believe CII/CPAR improves patient care.


December 2021
Dr. Sunil Datar is a family physician within the WestView PCN. He is participating in the Community Information Integration/Central Patient Attachment Registry, so he is notified via his clinic EMR when one of his CPAR-paneled patients has been discharged from emergency or hospital. Recently, that eNotification process resulted in an unexpected diagnosis. Watch the short video at the link of the story in his own words.



November 2021
Dr. Chris Le is a family physician who joined the Community Information Integration/Central Patient Attachment Registry program to improve continuity for his patients. Dr. Le recognizes that sharing even small amounts of information can lead to significantly better outcomes. Watch the short video clip at the link where he describes how sharing information benefits patients, particularly the vulnerable and complex, when they are seen in acute care. 



October 2021
Ronda Ryder was at a long-term care facility when she was asked to see an unscheduled patient who had fallen and felt faint. Read more to find out how the AHS community paramedic used the Community Encounter Digest in Netcare to learn of the patient’s relationship to her PCN physician and was able to provide follow up calls that supported the patient getting the care she needed.



September 2021
Today over half a million Albertans have a Community Encounter Digest in their Netcare record. The program continues to break ground.



September 2021
In a time with high unpredictability, CII/CPAR can bring some planning and predictable work to the provider and team. More than one thousand community physicians now have their EMR integrated with in over 230 clinics across Alberta