Before release 87, our episode history had shown ‘consent events’, such as when consent was given, confirmed, or revoked. ‘Sharing events’ – when consent information has been shared digitally with patients via email or SMS – are now also shown in the episode history, giving teams greater visibility of the consent timeline. This information was previously stored in the audit trail but not exposed to users.
The sharing events include details on who shared the information, to which contact details, and any documentation added on sharing. When message sending fails, for example due to a non-valid email address, a warning banner explains this.
A ‘patient consent statements’ section has been added to clinician view; these are the statements that a patient agrees to as part of the consent flow. These have been added into clinician view so that clinicians have clear visibility of the relevant consent statements for that episode, given that these can be different for different types of templates. For example, the fourth bullet below is not shown where anaesthesia is irrelevant.
An upcoming update will introduce a different type of template for consent scenarios that Concentric has not previously been well suited to. One example is consent for genetic testing. These often have very different patient consent statements, highlighting the need for clinician visibility at the episode level.
