The instructions below cover how to complete a Health Check in Skyline. Note, you must have a Clinician or Clinical Support Assistant role in Skyline to complete a Health Check. You can also find Skyline ‘How To Guides’ on the top menu in ? Help of the Skyline browser application.
Completing A Health Check
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NOTE: You must log into the Skyline Desktop Connector for the results to be saved within Emis Web |
Ensure you’re logged into your clinical system - i.e. Emis Web
Log into the Skyline Desktop Connector
If the Desktop connector is hidden or not logged in
Click on the ^ (hidden icons) in the bottom right system tray
Right click the Skyline icon
Click login and log into Skyline (if login is greyed out you’re already logged in)
Click on show cues
Click on the Open Browser Application - Skyline will open in a web browser
Click on the Health Checks box or Health Checks in the top menu
Under cohorts - click on the + next to Health Checks
Click on Patients To Be Invited For a Health Check
Click on the patient - the line will be highlighted in white
Click on the Action dropdown in the top right of the screen
Click on Health Check - the assessment template will open
Populate the fields
Click the radio button to complete the Health Check
Tick the box to generate Patient Plan
Click on Finish
Heart Age Calculator - displays the results and allows you to show the patient how by changing their lifestyle they can lower the risk
Documents To Print - Patient Plan is available here. You can click Print against a single document or click Print All
Codes - the codes generated by the Health Check results will be listed - click Add CodesLaunch the web interface via the open browser application option in the Desktop Connector
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Carrying Out A Health Check
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NOTE: We do not recommend running a Health Check on a patient using the Health Checks Activity This Year cohort unless you’re absolutely sure the patient is eligible. This cohort gives practices an overview of all patients 40 - 74, eligible and ineligible. |
Select the Bury Health Checks Solution | Cohorts
Select the Patients to be invited Cohort
Find the patient to be reviewed either by scrolling though the patients or by entering the Name into the filters box.
Select the patient by clicking on them and then select Health Check from the Action menu
A Data Entry tab will open containing the Health Check review
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NOTE: A Health Check can be part saved at any point by clicking Finish. You may want to do this if you take bloods during the Health Check which are sent to a lab. Codes will be generated for all data entered into the template; these can then be added into the clinical system. A second Health Check will be needed once the blood results are back to complete the Health Check. Note, these patients will remain listed in the Eligible Patients cohort until the ‘Health Check Completed’ code is added. |
Did the patient DNA - by ticking NO to the question, the Health Checks template will be displayed
The box "Tick to generate patient plan" will be ticked as default
Answer the questions - some fields may be populated with the data held in the patients clinical record
Mandatory questions will be labelled
Values that are out of range will also generate an error message
As the questions are answered different options may appear
Calculators are indicated by a green square, click on the square to open the calculator if the result has not populated
When all the required values have been populated clicking on calculate will perform the calculation
The result of the calculation will be displayed
The Visualisation tab will appear and display data once the minimum data requirements are met
Values can be altered in the tab using the slider to show the effects of lifestyle change on the QRISK score. No data collected in the Health Check will be affected by changing the information in the visualisation tab.
The Documents to Print tab will list any documents produced by the Health Check (e.g the patient plan) will be available to be printed on
Print the documents
Once all mandatory fields have been populated a Health Check Completed box will be displayed - you MUST tick YES
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Failing to tick the Health Check completed box will result in the Health Check Done code NOT being generated. |
Clicking on Finish will prompt to confirm completing the Health Check and adding the codes
Click on Yes to accept the statement
Check you’re happy with the codes being added into the clinical system
Clicking on Add Codes at the bottom of the screen will save the selected codes into the patients clinical record
A confirmation message will be displayed
Once you see the message the Health Check is complete
Close the Health Check Template tab in your Internet browser by clicking on the X as shown below
NOTE: If you see a warning that codes have not been saved
Check that you are logged in to the Principal Clinical System - as mentioned above
Check that the Skyline Desktop Connector is logged in - as mentioned above