Andrew McIntyre wrote:
Chris Scott wrote:
I'm interested in the views of the list members on the process of
transferring patient records electronically between Practices. Given
that most households move house once every four years and that Practices
are becoming more electronic, the days of handing over a paper file are
almost over. So if a patient goes to another practice how are records
transferred now and what will this look like in the future? - The
destination Practice might well have a different practice management
system using different protocols and standards of course.
The planned mechanism, as outlined at recent MSIA meeting, is to use
archetyped HL7 V2 and HL7 Mecication/allergy segments to encode the
records for transfer.
To get atomic data will require significant enhancements in the HL7
produced by systems, but this is the mechanism that is most likely to
succeed in the long term
The current default standard is of course Medical Director XML format.
It might be proprietary but at least it saves killing another tree.
David
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