In a primary care setting, patients are assigned a primary care provider who is responsible for delivering essential health care, coordinating all health care services, and serving as the point of access for specialty care. The primary care provider is supported by a team of professionals that may include nurses, pharmacists, social workers, dietitians, clerical assistants, etc. The Primary Care Management Module was developed to assist VA facilities in implementing primary care. PCMM supports both primary care and non-primary care teams.
Teams are groups of staff members organized for a certain purpose.
The software allows you to setup and define a team, assign positions to the team, assign staff to the positions, assign patients to the team, and assign patients to practitioners. The primary care practitioner and primary care team information captured in PCMM are stored at the Austin Automation Center and will be used by the Office of Performance and Quality Measures for national reporting and performance measures. Ability to make single patient assignment or multiple patient assignment to both teams and positions. Transmits data to Austin in HL7 message format. Ability to control transmission of MailMan messages to team positions.