Community Information Integration & Central Patient Attachment Registry (CII/CPAR) enables physicians and their teams to share patient information to Alberta Netcare directly from their electronic medical record (EMR). CII now allows providers to upload Pulmonary Function Diagnostic (PFD) reports into Netcare, if the EMR vendor has implemented this function.
sample PFD in Netcare OPI folder
Clinics that use Healthquest EMR can sign up for CII today to start submitting PFDs. Please complete the Confirmation of Participation form to start the onboarding process. When completing this form, choose “Other” as the participation type, and type “PFD” in the text box. If your providers also want to submit consult reports to Netcare, select yes for “consult reports” in addition to “other”.
All other EMR vendors have been advised that this function is available for them to develop. Reach out to your EMR vendor to express your interest in this function and encourage them to develop it.
The following letter may help clinics advocate for this function to be implemented by their EMR vendor: AH Letter Announcing PFD Reporting to Netcare Functionality
Onboarding Process to Send PFDs to Netcare
- Fill out the Confirmation of Participation form if you are not already live on CII/CPAR.
- Contact your body box (aka body plethysmograph) vendor and work with them to get access to the standardized templates required for PFD submissions via CII. They can also answer any software-related questions you may have. Please note that there may be a cost associated with getting access to the standardized templates as it may require an update to your body box software. Please see the table below for contact information for common body box vendors.
- For the standardized templates, please ensure that you do not add any logos or other text or graphics outside of the fields provided in the templates, as they will cause errors in your PFD submissions to Netcare (the PFD report will overlap with the Netcare header) and they will not pass validation.
Body Box Vendor Contact Information:
Body Box Software - Newer/Older | Software Developer/Canadian Distributor | Primary Contact |
Sentry Suite(SeS)/ Vmax | Vyaire/Trudell Healthcare Solutions |
Greg Doody [email protected] John Prost Brandis Geldoff – AB Sales Rep |
Ascent/ Breeze/ Medisoft Expair | Medgraphics (MGC)/Novus |
Murray Beaton – President for Novus Canada, Western Canada sales contact |
ComPAS | Morgan Scientific/N/A |
Patrick Morgan |
Clinics and EMR vendors with questions about CII and PFDs can contact AMA-ACTT at [email protected]