> NEHTA have just released the General Practitioner and > Specialist/Critical Care Referral Data Content Specifications v1.0. > Its a small document of some almost 500 pages. You can find it here. > https://www.nehta.gov.au/index.php?option=com_docman&task=cat_view&gid=176&Itemid=139 > <https://www.nehta.gov.au/index.php?option=com_docman&task=cat_view&gid=176&Itemid=139> > > I am curious to know from the technical experts among this group. > 1. Just how practical, implementable and workable is this specification? > 2. How likely is it that any system developer will implement it in the > forseeable future? > 3. Do people think this project is adding anything that will make a > difference to health service quality and safety anytime soon?
OMG :-o I have perused the 500 pages, and am agog ... - NeHTA state that there is an increase in patients with chronic disease requiring multidisciplinary management [agree]. - NeHTA's vision (I think) is for there to be an EHR which can be standardised/formatted so that a referral template will contain information for communication to the various health care providers [good vision]. - The problem is that the amount of information (number of fields) that NeHTA is proposing is soooo large that the whole schema becomes unworkable. A bit like an episode of Maxwell Smart (agent 86) where Smart obtains some information from agent 13 who is hiding in a cigarette machine, then - 86: Thanks. While your there,13, can I have a pack of cigarettes. 13: Filtered or non-filtered. 86: Filtered. 13: Menthol or non-menthol. 86: Non-menthol. 13: King-size or regular. 86: Forget it. I just broke the habit :-) My answers to David's 3 specific questions would be: 1. I don't think the HeHTA schema is practical/ implementable/ workable. 2. I don't think that a system developer would be able to implement an EHR with this level of complexity in the foreseeable future. 3. I don't think this project adds anything that will make a difference to health service quality and safety anytime soon. Horst (if he has a moment to just skim the 500 pages) would provide a much better opinion. (I would be better at just pruning the NeHTA extravaganza down to workable size). John Mac _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
