At 8:12 pm +0930 5/6/07, Oliver Frank wrote:
Greg Twyford wrote:
Using the ACIR website is inefficient and tedious anyway, so why persist?
I'll tell you why!!
If you use MD2, possibly MD3, there are several practice management
software packages, including [ugh] Pracsoft and CompuDoc, as well
as others, that allow the transmission of ACIR data via Online
claiming.
We had been busily recording in MD2 and since late last year in MD3
all immunisations that we give and also those that the parents tell
us have been given previously. Until last week, we had assumed that
Medical Director and Pracsoft were transmitting via Medicare Online
Claiming the details of all immunisations that we had recorded. We
thought that we were making sure that our child patients'
immunisation histories were being brought up to date. We thought
that we were being good doctors.
Then...last week we set our new practice nurse to work on sorting
out what had happened with some immunisations whose details would
not go through the Medicare Online Claiming system. One thing led
to another, the Division's immunisation coordinator spent some hours
with our nurse, phone calls were made, an email sent to HCN support
and we have now received from HCN the following information:
"Medical Director 3 and Pracsoft only sends the current
Immunisations and doesn't do catch ups. To do catch ups you need to
print off the list of immunisation and send in manually to ACIR or
they can be logged by the ACIR web site and claimed that way.
Current Immunisations are indicated by the Arrow in the image below."
The image showed what users of Medical Director see in the child
immunisation screen, with the set of vaccines currently due
highlighted by a green arrow.
So, it turns out to complete a child's previous immunisation
history, we are expected to:
1. Enter the details into our Medical Director software;
AND
2. Go online to the ACIR (and use Microsoft Internet Explorer and
not Firefox) and enter those details again there.
We are not happy about this. I am writing to HCN to ask for the
reason why details of vaccines given previously are not being
transmitted to the ACIR. If the explanation is that the ACIR may
already have a record of some or all of these previous immunisations
having been given, then I say that the ACIR can just ignore the
redundant information from us. However, if it happens that the ACIR
has not previously been informed of the previous immunisations, at
least we are now telling it.
--
Oliver Frank, general practitioner
I think it could be nicer of the ACIR to automagically send us
whenever we report a vaccination, an update of all known current
vaccines in ACIR that our software could hopefully verify and merge.
But I think I am dreaming to think that this could be possible.....
Ian.
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Health Informatics Consultant, Brisbane, Australia
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