Quick Start Guide
This page provides links to relevant videos and other resources to get you started. Pen CS provides free webinars and training videos. Our help site has a selection of step-by-step guides on specific topics.
Webinars
General Practice Newsletter
Sign up to the General Practice newsletter or the PHN newsletter to receive monthly updates.
Videos
We host our videos on Vimeo but here are some particularly relevant videos for new users:
- CAT4 for Beginners (50 min)
- CAT4 for Intermediate Users (50m)
- CAT4 for Advanced Users (50m)
- Topbar – the whole story (55m)
The videos above are comprehensive and show general and specific functionality of CAT4 and Topbar.
If you are interested in a particular functionality and have a basic understanding of the tools, please view these videos:
- Data Quality (20m)
- Quality Coding (20m)
- CAT Plus Prompts (20m) – using notifications for clinicians based on CAT4 and Topbar prompts
- Cancer Screening (20m)
- Topbar Overview and UI Update
A full list of all topics can be found here
Very short ‘tip of the month’ videos with an average duration of around two minutes: Tip of Month Videos
Recipes (Step-by-Step Guides)
To get hands on experience the recipes are a great starting point. The full list of recipes is accessible here: CAT Recipes
Here are some selected topics that will help you to get started:
- Identify active patients with at least 3 visits in the last 2 years
- Add Weight, Height and Waist Measurements to Patient Record Identify patients with Allergy or Smoking Status NOT recorded
- Ensure all diabetic patients are coded with the correct diagnosis in the clinical software.
- Increase HbA1c recording for Type II diabetic patients to 95% or higher and increase ACR recording by 10%.
- PIP QI Improvement Measures – ten recipes to show the details on the PIP QI Improvement Measures
User Guides
The CAT4 – New Users Guide provides an overview of and examples of quality improvement activities with CAT4.
Topbar has a brief user guide for each app – Topbar Apps in Detail
To understand how practices are set up and how other configuration is handled, have a look at Getting Started and the pages listed there.