Hi John, Thanks for having a look and saying what you think..most grateful..
Cheers David ---- Dr David G More MB, PhD, FACHI Phone +61-2-9438-2851 Fax +61-2-9906-7038 Skype Username : davidgmore E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] HealthIT Blog - www.aushealthit.blogspot.com On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 18:17:23 +1100, John Mackenzie wrote: > >> 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 > > __________ NOD32 2083 (20070227) Information __________ > > This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. > http://www.eset.com
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