The Custom Care Teams module allows you to create groups of providers, staff, or both, that work together. These groups can then be applied as a filter to selected Desktop modules (Schedule, Clinical Messages, the Results Manager, and Rx Renewal Queue) to make it easier to coordinate care between members of the team.
For example, a physician assistant might support three different MDs. By creating a care team with each of these members, he or she can see at a glance the schedule of patients coming in to see any of these providers, as well as their results manager data, clinical messages data, and renewal queue tasks.
You can create multiple care teams, as well as select a default care team. For example, if you had two care teams, Care Team A and Care Team B, you can select to have either care team display when initially displaying the Schedule module. However, you can override this default at any time from the Schedule module. When you choose to override a default, that new selection then becomes the default for that module. You can select a different default for each of the applicable Desktop modules.
Initially, the Custom Care Teams module displays your personal custom care teams. However, a series of filter buttons at the top of the screen can help you locate and view care teams created by others. See Using Custom Filters for details. Custom care teams created by others can be used as a basis for creating new custom care teams.
The Module Preferences button is different than the other filter buttons. It allows you to limit the care teams that are available to you from the associated Desktop modules. See Maintaining the Target Custom List for details.