HSC Virtual Ward

The HSC Virtual Ward is an internal medicine service where hospital physicians follow patients who are sent home with special supports.

For now this is just a placeholder / link anchor for this, decisions around collection are not 100% clear.

Even if we don't collect the actual records, we need to decide how we will code patients who come from or go there:

• Pre-admit Inpatient Institution are these in-patients for the purpose of
• Previous Location /
• Dispo field (already started talking about this)

If we were to collect this we would need to decide

• how/if to include these in reports
• how would collectors access the charts (is charting done in EPR like at STB?)

Log

• 2025-10-23 - initial question in Dispo field re how to code discharge to this location
• 2025-09-23 - initial records showed up in Cognos data import. We don't collect these, but added the following as required for so we added
  • "HSC-Virtual Ward MED1" to the S Cognos Units table
  • "HSC Internal Med / Virtual Ward" to the S Cognos Services table
• 2025-07-08 CCMDB Monthly meeting - discussed that these are not in-patients