Ian Cheong wrote: > We had a briefing today from a nurse involved in the National Bowel > Cancer Screening initiative (good election year stuff). > > Of note, there is a national register to keep track of the people sent > screening kits who have not fronted up to investigate abnormal results. > > We have to fill forms on paper to notify the register if we take any > action, so they knwo to stop hassling the patient. > > Electronic functionality will be June/July (?i think) for lodgement on a > web site (without auto population of the forms from the clincial > softwaer) or for integration into the clinical software - which will > print paper to be sent to the register. > > Electronic receipt of the pathology report result of the FOBT tests was > not envisaged - we expect a letter in the mail, even though the provider > can surely send HL7 path messages - I will follow-up this to double check.
According to this page: http://www.cancerscreening.gov.au/internet/screening/publishing.nsf/Content/program-register the register is being set up and run by Medicare Australia, which makes it a rather similar to ACIR (Australian Childhood Immunisation Register), which only took a decade or so to reach a state of barely acceptable operational efficiency and accuracy (depending on to whom one asks about it - some are not so charitable). Surely a bowel screening register should be run by the same people who run the State/Terr-based pap smear registers, as the nature and scale of the operation such registers is rather similar? Oh well. Tim C _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
