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Sending Pulmonary Function Diagnostics (PFDs) to Netcare via CII

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
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 

  1. Fill out the Confirmation of Participation form if you are not already live on CII/CPAR.
  2. 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.
  3. 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
[email protected]

Brandis Geldoff – AB Sales Rep
[email protected]
Cell: 403-305-0748 

Ascent/ Breeze/ Medisoft Expair  Medgraphics (MGC)/Novus 

Murray Beaton – President for Novus Canada, Western Canada sales contact 
[email protected]
Cell: 905-407-9757 

ComPAS  Morgan Scientific/N/A

Patrick Morgan
[email protected]
Cell: 978-521-4440 (USA) 

Clinics and EMR vendors with questions about CII and PFDs can contact AMA-ACTT at [email protected]