Connect meeting follow up

Monthly Statistics

1622 live family physicians
North Zone has only 4% to go to reach provincial target of 80%
Edmonton Zone reached 50% live or in-progress, and Calgary Zone reached 65%

CII/CPAR time-limited PIA Rates

Reduced rates officially ended on Sep 30, 2023
ACTT still has a list of consultants that can help clinics update their PIA

Acceleration Grant - Payment method

Physicians can follow these steps to receive the payments directly to their bank account:
- Log into the AMA member dashboard on the AMA website
- Go to “CII/CPAR Payment”, and click on “Banking info” to select a bank account from the drop-down list
Physicians who do not select a bank account, will receive a cheque by mail
If they have a President's Choice bank account, they must contact the membership department at membershipgeneral@albertadoctors.org to set up direct deposit
Non-AMA members will receive a cheque in the mail
If physicians have questions about their CII/CPAR Acceleration Grant payments, they can email: ciicpar@albertadoctors.org

EMR Updates

Wolf:
- Confirmation of Participation forms for new clinics will not be accepted but provider changes can be done until December 2023
AVA:
- Now conformed and testing ‘go-live’ with a few clinics to start. Site liaisons & practice facilitators will be notified before a clinic is switched over to ‘live’ (in the coming months). The vendor is working on core CII/CPAR training resources such as the CED data map
- Primary care providers can submit AVA CoPs now – remember to select Encounters as well as Panel & eNotifications. Clinics submitting manual panels may need to submit new CoPs if new providers have been added to the clinic, or other information from the initial CoP is missing or out of date
- CPAR demographic mismatches for patients with two first names (e.g., Mary Ann) is a known issue, and is being investigated by eHealth
CHR:
- Fully conformed but encounters still flowing to test environment
- Common issues resulting in patients not being submitted as part of a CPAR panel include blank validation dates, and patients not being manually added to CPAR panels
- CHR CII/CPAR resources are available

Other Updates

Allied health professionals on CII/CPAR

Onboarding has been put on hold for now as development work is required to ensure CII/CPAR data submitted can be linked back to unique allied health providers. Please do not submit CoPs for new allied health professionals until further notice

Connect Care Primary Care Provider (PCP) Field

The CPAR PCP field is expected to populate the Connect Care PCP field by February 2024

Future eNotification Changes

Connect Care Summative Notes & CII/CPAR eNotifications can result in duplication of some notifications, contributing to “information fatigue” for primary care providers
There are ongoing discussions about potentially shutting off some CII/CPAR eNotifications to reduce duplication
If you aren’t sure about the difference between CII/CPAR eNotifications and Connect Care Summative Notes, please refer to our Learn@AMA course for more information
Stay tuned for more information over the upcoming months

What is CII/CPAR Connect?

CII/CPAR Connect is a regular meeting for anyone needing support with CII/CPAR and aims to support those implementing CII/CPAR by creating a forum to connect and ask questions.

Meetings run monthly, typically on the third Tuesday of the month at 1 p.m. You can choose to attend any one meeting or all of them.

See the dates and register below. You can also view slides from previous meetings in the CII/CPAR Resources Centre.

Questions? Check out the CII/CPAR Resources Centre or email ciicpar@albertadoctors.org.