The Web Portal
The web portal is an extranet* and works like any internet site you may visit on the web, however it is a secure site that requires a username and password to gain entry. IF will provide participants involved in the APCC Program with a username and password to access the web portal.
The web portal is an online tool for reporting and submitting data, sharing ideas and staying involved in the Program. The web portal provides essential information for participants, including resources, calendars, results and reports, event information, registrations and a lot more!
You don’t need to be participating in an APCC Program wave to track your improvements through the web portal. Simply contact data@apcc.org.au and we can send you a username and password. Once activated in the web portal you can then submit your monthly practice data and automatically generate feedback graphs in real time. The Pen data extraction tool is freely available to all activated practices to assist with extracting monthly improvement measures.
*An extranet is an intranet that is partially accessible to authorised persons outside of a company or organization. For example, when someone enters a bank website and logs-in to use internet banking, or visits their public library website and logs-in their membership number to order a book to borrow they are using an extranet.
What is the web portal used for?
Practices and health services generally use the web portal for the following tasks:
Electronic monthly data reporting – When combined with a compatible data extraction tool (e.g CAT) the web portal allows for fast, easy, electronic uploading of the monthly clinical measures. If your clinical system is not compatible with a data extraction tool data can be entered manually.
Reviewing feedback graphs – The web portal converts the raw data into easy to read feedback, or improvement, graphs. Practices and health services view their improvement graphs on the web portal.
Viewing comparison graphs - Through the web portal practices and health services are able to compare their improvement graphs with those of their Division, their wave, and the national averages.
Entering the Model for improvement, 3 Fundamental Questions and PDSAs – This enables practices and health services to keep an electronic record of their change cycles and improvement work .
Accessing Resources – All available APCC workshop presentations and handbooks, templates, and other resources are available within an electronic library. Items can be checked out to just to review, or downloaded to keep. The web portal comes with an excellent search facility.
Privacy
The web portal is a secure site. Members' details are not visible to other users and will remain confidential. Improvement Foundation (IF) will be able to see your personal details as they are used for administrative purposes. Practice or health service details are visible by other practice or health service team members that have been granted access to the web site. Your practice or health service data and feedback graphs are confidential and only your team, the Divisional support team and IF can see these graphs. As for data, it is all be de-identified and aggregated prior to being extracted from your clinical software.
Portal and PenCat User Guides
For practical step-by-step guides on how to use the web portal and the Pen Clinical Audit Tool (CAT) visit the Using the Web Portal page on this site.
Last Updated 26 March 2010