John, A form of generic secure stationary was approved by HIC for printing pathology requests as part of a trial at CeCH/Ballarat Division around 2000. There is nothing on a pre-printed form that cant be added in real time on the plain paper or generic stationary version.
Regards Peter MacIsaac MacIsaac Informatics Consulting in Health Informatics, Terminology & Data management and Health Policy. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 0411403462 (mobile) 61611327 (office) peter_macisaac (skype) 8 Ewart St. Yarralumla 2600 "We trained hard, but it seemed every time we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganised. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganising, and a wonderful method it can be for creation the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation." - From Pertonii Arbitri AD 66, attributed to Gaius Petronus, a Roman General who later committed suicide. -----Original Message----- From: john dooley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 8 March 2006 8:34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; General Practice Computing Group Talk Subject: Re: [GPCG_TALK] Increase in radiology ordering Peter, I dont know what radiology request requirements are but for pathology its not possible at present to have a unique request form printed up for each patient as they would not be "HIC approved". You would have to have dynamic data on a different form. Currently all pathology request forms look pretty much the same as there is a generic HIC supplied minimum set of data you must include word for word The form you propose as a pathology request form cannot include any tick boxes for tests/test groups, must have the questions about pvte patient in private hospital etc And the forms have to be formally submitted and approved by Medicare before you can use them, after which they give you an "instrument number" to include on the printed stationary. They are very particular about the wording, and in my experience the page real estate is actually not so big at all when including all the hic required fields (having the personal experience of actually complying and designing forms of late). JD Peter MacIsaac wrote: > Andrew, > > The point is that you can print all this stuff on the request form at the > time of ordering the test - there is really a lot of spare real estate if > you don't use the pre-printed stationary they give you. The patients would > be better off having a description of the investigation and printed > instructions. > > It may not come as a surprise but maybe 10-20% of radiology bookings made by > phone by the patient end up in some form of misunderstanding. Having the > request present at time of booking would be really appreciated by both > patient and radiographers. > > Some of this is covered in the report I was involved in doing for the > College Radiology. It is available at: > > http://www.ranzcr.edu.au/documents/list.cfm?lngCat=65 titled e-health > issues paper. There is a survey to go with it asking for rating of the > issues raised against importance and how well being addressed. > > As regards the paper we use, how many people out there like having to feed > multiple forms into their printers and the stuff ups that occasionally > occur? > > > _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
