PSS Clinic Toolkit

Last Updated: July 1, 2025

PSS Clinic Toolkit Update – July 2025

The PSS Clinic Toolkit has been updated to align with recent changes to Ontario’s cancer screening guidelines. This update includes revised EMR searches, updated custom forms, and refreshed help files. These enhancements support alignment with current clinical recommendations and assist clinicians in efficiently identifying and managing patients eligible for cervical, breast, and colorectal cancer screening. Optional forms for lab requisitions and preventive screening tracking are also included to further support documentation and ordering workflows.

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The OntarioMD (OMD) Insights for Care (i4C) Dashboard was retired effective September 30, 2024. OMD has developed the PSS Clinic Toolkit for TELUS PSS EMR users that replicates some of the functionalities of the former i4C Dashboard. 

Benefits 

The toolkit provides immediate access to reports based on patient information and provides valuable insights that lead to improvement in guideline adherence and patient outcomes. Patient lists are easily and efficiently produced directly from reports. It was designed to make patient management easier and save you time:  

• Follow-up tasks such as patient recalls are simplified.  

• Quality improvement is easily tracked through data export and trend monitoring.  

• Reports on patient populations provide a convenient high-level overview of activities to be done.  

Clients using other OMD-certified EMRs who need support can contact the OMD Advisory Service at support@ontariomd.com for assistance with gaining practice insights tailored to their needs.  

Accessing the OMD PSS Clinic Toolkit  

The OMD PSS Clinic Toolkit provides general practice and clinical reports. The toolkit presents as a toolbar with clickable buttons, each representing distinct categories of indicators. OMD recommends that users create a fictitious patient chart and configure the toolbar to display in it only or the toolbar can be configured to display across all patient charts if preferred. 

New to the toolkit?

Start with the Getting Started Guide to learn how to install and configure the PSS Clinic Toolkit, then download the full PSS Clinic Toolkit.

First-Time Installation of PSS Clinic Toolkit

Steps to use the toolkit:  

1. Download and extract the full toolkit zipped file to a location accessible to your TELUS PSS instance.  

2. Import searches, custom forms, and handouts to appropriate locations in your TELUS PSS instance.  

3. Import and modify the reminder to meet your clinical needs. Creating a dedicated fictitious patient chart is recommended, which will allow access to the toolkit, and modify the reminder to link to that patient and any users to whom the toolkit should display.  

4. Define Provider - To run a search, the user is prompted to enter an MD/NP number to filter the results for the chosen provider.  Familiarizing yourself with the MD/NP numbers required before launching the searches is recommended.  

Already Installed the PSS Clinic Toolkit?

Skip the full install – instead, refer to the PSS Clinic Toolkit Update Guide – July 2025 and download the PSS Clinic Toolkit Update to update only the revised components.

Existing Installation of PSS Clinic Toolkit – Update Steps

Steps to apply the toolkit update to an existing installation:  

1. Download and extract the update package zipped file to a location accessible to your TELUS PSS instance. 

2. Delete previously installed Cancer Screening and Welcome handouts in your TELUS PSS instance.

3. Import the updated searches, custom forms, and handouts to appropriate locations in your TELUS PSS instance. If prompted, choose to overwrite the existing versions.

Indicator Categories 

The OMD Advisory Service has developed Help Files for these indicator categories in the toolkit:  

• Adult immunizations

• Adult obesity

• Cancer screening  

• Childhood immunizations  

• Coronary artery disease  

• Diabetes management  

• Hypertension  

• Opioids  

• Patient panel  

• Smoking status  

Additional Resources 

OMD offers additional valuable resources on best practices for using the PSS Clinic Toolkit.