Jon Patrick wrote: > > I am working with the Breast Cancer Institute, NSW on a research project > with their information system and as a side issue they would like to > send their statutory data to the cancer registry automatically. Does > anyone on the list have experience with sending information to any > cancer registry and give some advice on pitfalls and difficulties. > thanks > jon
Jon, Speak to Neville Board at the NSW cancer Institute, which runs the NSW Central Cancer Registry (CCR) on behalf of the NSW Department of Health. They did a trial of message-based notification of cancer cases last year or in 2005, as I recall. The CCR has received batched data uploads in elecronic form from public hospitals for many years, but still gets its histopathology notifications (basically copies of the histopath reports sent to requesting clinicians) on paper, I think. Cancer is notifiable under the NSW Public Health Act, which also stipulates that path labs, GPs, hospitals schools and child care centres have to notify the Dept of Health of suspected cases of certain communicable diseases. We are currently working on notification from path labs using HL7 2.x-based messaging. Argus Connect is our preferred secure transport mechanism, although we will accept others if labs don't want to install Argus - but so far most are happy to gain Argus capability as a side benefit of electronic statutory notification to the DoH. Yes, there are plans to support electronic notifications from GPs, ideally generated directly from GP clinical information systems, and again, HL7 messaging via Argus Connect will probably be the preferred modality, but again we'll accept others if it is necessary to do so. Notification via a secure Web page will also be supported but only as an interim measure or last resort for practices who can do HL7 messaging - retyping or cut-and-pasting patient details into a Web page is not a good solution. However, there is about a year's more work to get electronic notification from the majority of path labs in NSW working smoothly and reliably, and then we'll tackle e-notification from GPs, which is of a much, much smaller volume. However, happy to talk to GPs and/or software vendors about this in the meantime. We're already in touch with almost all labs doing communicable disease work for NSW residents. Best to contact Lina Persson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the first instance if anyone does want to discuss electronic statutory notification of communicable diseases in NSW (and yes, we are urging our interstate colleagues to settle on the same HL7 specs, result codes etc as we have, and it looks like they will). Tim C _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
