Consultation on legislative changes for the PCEHR

The Australian Government is proposing changes to the personally controlled electronic health record (PCEHR) system, including renaming it the My Health Record system, and the Healthcare Identifiers Service, in response to reviews of each system undertaken in 2013. Read about the proposed legislative changes here: https://consultations.health.gov.au/ehealth/ehr-and-hi-legislation-discussion-paper-1/supporting_documents/PCEHR%20and%20HI%20Legislation%20Discussion%20Paper%202015%20D15537948.DOCX Have your say here: https://consultations.health.gov.au/ehealth/ehr-and-hi-legislation-discussion-paper-1 And read about the … Continue reading →

P2P project update

AHCSA regretfully confirms SA Health’s withdrawal from the point to point messaging project, which we were hoping would encourage hospital discharge summaries to be sent to ACCHSs via the Argus secure messaging software currently installed at each site. Full story from PulseIt here. Continue reading →

eHealth media release

THE HON SUSSAN LEY MP Minister for Health Minister for Sport MEDIA RELEASE May 10 2015 Patients to get new myHealth Record: The Abbott Government will deliver a rebooted personalised myHealth Record system for patients and doctors that will trial an opt-out, rather than opt-in, option as part of a $485 million budget rescue package … Continue reading →

Updated list of hospitals connected to the PCEHR

Please click the link below to take you to NeHTA’s updated list of hospitals across Australia that are connected to the PCEHR. List of PCEHR connected hospitals Continue reading →

Update on States eHealth progress

PulseIT report on an update on each state’s progress with eHealth and telehealth. Click here to access their article. Continue reading →

Adding new services to the NHSD: where is the Add Service button?

If, like us, you had a problem adding a service when using the NHSD’s management interface, please note that the problem is the word wrap of the field above. This is not working so the information is stretching a long way across the screen. This affects the placement of the Add Service button. If you … Continue reading →

SA ACCHSs: Important notice about the NHSD

Please note that you will be receiving some emails over the next few days with your access details to the National Health Services Directory. The emails will contain more information about the directory, how to access it, and some dates for training around using the directory’s back end. In summary, this is the outcome from … Continue reading →

HPD vs NHSD

Some information around secure messaging and directories: Please note that although the long term plan is to consolidate the information held in the two sources below, currently and for the immediate foreseeable future, both directories need to be kept updated. The table below simplifies and summarises key information about the two directories. We will forward … Continue reading →

EHealth checklist for SA ACCHSs

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 →

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 →