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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

Individual eHealth PKI renamed NASH

PLEASE NOTE: The article below from PulseIT refers to the smartcard + disc individual providers wanting access via the provider portal (not via Communicare) receive. For SA ACCHSs, none of you currently have clinicians accessing via the portal, so the contents of this article will not have any direct impact upon your daily practice. eHealth … Continue reading →

eHealth register of conformant software

NeHTA currently maintains two conformant vendor product registers: 1)      ePIP register of software for GP vendors, meeting the requirements of the Practice Incentive Program: https://epipregister.nehta.gov.au/ 2)      eHealth Register of conformity, which is available to all software developers (vendors and jurisdictions) to list software that conforms to SMD, HI and PCEHR requirements: http://www.nehta.gov.au/our-work/ehealth-register-of-conformity Please click here … Continue reading →