The instructions below cover how to complete a Health Check in Skyline. Note, you must have a Clinician 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
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
Launch the web interface via the open browser application option in the Desktop Connector
Carrying Out A Health Check
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 new tab will open containing the Health Check review screen
NOTE: a Health Check can be part saved at any point by clicking Finish. Codes will be generated for all data entered into the template; these can then be added into the clinical system.
Answer the questions - some data will be populated from the data in the patient record
The first mandatory question - ‘'Did the patient DNA’' must be answered and then select if you would like to generate a patient plan
All mandatory questions will be labelled in red
Results that are out of date will be highlighted in red
Values that are out of range will be highlighted in red
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
Once all the mandatory questions have been answered the Finish button will be enabled
Throughout the review, the Clinician will be able to see the patient details and any other available tabs - Heart Age Calculator, Documents to Print and Visualisations.
The Heart Age Calculator tab is populated with data entered during the Health Check but these values can be altered in the tab 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 Heart Age Calculator.
Any documents produced by the Health Check (e.g. the patient plan) will be available to be printed on the Documents to Print tab
For a completed Health Check print the documents BEFORE you click on Finish
Once the documents have been printed click on the Finish button
Review the codes that will be added to the patient record
Unticking the boxes against the code lines will stop that code being saved to the patient record
Clicking on Add Codes at the bottom of the screen will save the selected codes to the patient record
Once you see the message:-
close the Health Check Template tab at the top by clicking on the X as the Health Check is complete
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