Tim Churches wrote: >David More wrote: > > >>Progress Towards Electronic Health Records >> >>To underpin the efforts in refocusing the health system to promote better >>health and >>community care for all Australians, COAG agreed to accelerate work on a >>national >>electronic health records system to build the capacity for health providers, >>with their >>patient's consent, to communicate quickly and securely with other health >>providers across >>the hospital, community and primary medical settings. The Commonwealth will >>contribute $65 >>million and the States and Territories $65 million in the period to 30 June >>2009. >> >> > >That sounds less like the former HealthConnect vision of huge, shared, >central repositories and much more like a vision of a far more >distributed electronic health record (or rather, an "electronic health >record system") enabled by quick and secure communication. OK, I have >just restated the preceding paragraph - but my point is that the >emphasis is on secure communication (implying between distributed >clinical information systems or repositories), not on shared central >repositories. > >Is that correct? > > I was wondering if someone could paint the end user picture for me now that we will shortly have a secure distributed electronic health record.
I am sitting in my surgery with Medical Director in front of me and the patient beside and have access to lots of data from my own sweat of the brow and from those specialists, pathologists and radiologists to whom I have referred the patient. The patient tells me the name of the last doctor they saw on holiday, the hospital where they were admitted and their Australian patient identification number. What's next? I can see various scenarios and impediments to their implementation but would be interested in those with the vision thing. For my own part, I would like *my *medical record to clearly delineate the "not invented here data" of which I now have a ?permanent copy. David -- "UFW. Deb does linux." SIP [EMAIL PROTECTED] NodePhone +61 7 31290168 Jabber [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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