We will have walked most SA ACCHSs through this already, but here is AHCSA’s eHealth checklist to going live with the PCEHR at your health service. E-Health Checklist SA ACCHSS Continue reading
Monthly Archives: October 2013
Useful consumer How To sheet from the medicare locals
Melissa Ros and Renate Millonig have created a simplified: ‘How to Activate Your PCEHR’ and ‘Inside the eHealth Record’ for consumers. This A4 resource clearly outlines the complex steps to take to activate a record – not an easy feat for some – as well as showing what a record looks like inside – without too … Continue reading
Pros and cons of telehealth for medication management
Written by Kate McDonald on 30 October 2013. The Royal District Nursing Service (RDNS) is looking for alternative devices to continue its trial of video conferencing technology to manage medications for older people in their homes following a decision by Intel to withdraw its Home Guide device from sale in Australia. Continue reading at Pulse … Continue reading
State Government’s response to submissions on proposed cuts to Drug and Alcohol Services
SA Health – State Government’s response to submissions on proposed cuts to Drug and Alcohol Services Continue reading
Scheduled outage to the PCEHR system
The Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record System is undertaking essential maintenance from 8pm Saturday 2nd November to 9:30am Sunday 3rd November (AEDT). Adelaide is 30 minutes behind AEDT i.e. if it is 1547 AEDT it is 1517 in Adelaide. During this time, consumers will not be able to access the PCEHR system. Click this link … Continue reading
A Community Liaison Officer speaks about eHealth at Nunyara Aboriginal Health Service in Whyalla
Currently in South Australia we have two electronic health records: My eHealth Record: Is only available to Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisations in South Australia. The system operator for the My eHealth record is The NT Department of Health. Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record (PCEHR) This is available to all participating healthcare organisations within Australia … Continue reading
Copy of SA Health eHealth policies
Directive Discharge Summary to PCEHR June 2013 3 0 ICT_Standards_PCEHR_Security_and_Access_Policy These documents were kindly shared with us by SA Health, and are current as at the date of the post only. For any changes to these, you should contact SA Health or look at their website. Continue reading
some useful resources from AMLA
Aged care software PCEHR compliance Sep2013 Availability of resources pharmacy software vendors 18Oct2013 software programs working towards PCEHR compliance WIP 22Oct2013 GP software resources WIP 23Oct2013 Continue reading
Notice about NASH certificates for SA ACCHSs
AHCSA have recently noted that at some sites there is an issue blocking access to the PCEHR. If you installed your organisation’s NASH certificate on Communicare v12.5 and have since upgraded to a latter version of Communicare, your NASH certificate may have been scrubbed out of the appropriate place on the Communicare server. Please check … Continue reading
UGPA calls on Government to address clinical utility of the PCEHR as an urgent priority
Today’s media release from the RACGP. 16 October 2013 Australia’s general practice (GP) leaders are calling on the Government to heed concerns raised by GPs regarding the significant clinical utility issues associated with the Personally Controlled eHealth Record (PCEHR) system and address them as an urgent priority. At a recent United General Practice Australia (UGPA) … Continue reading
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