Craig Barnett wrote:
2. The NSW electronic health record project (Health - e - link) has / had as
a corner stone of its process the ability to suck in information from
multiple GP systems to a central repository. This would have been an ideal
way to get a handle on mapping basic core data items between software
systems. The centralised summary is far more useful to the "patient" and
possibly to the individual doctor seeing the "transferred" patient. It is
web accessible anywhere in the world - no disc, no commercial transaction.
It was to be a brief summary of key issues eg angina, hypertension, positive
stress echo, HPV immunisation and would bypass the lengthy consultation
notes ....
Perhaps unfortunately the construction of the extraction interface was left
to the software vendors - HCN etc. I am not sure this was wise and my
opinion (retrospectively!!) is that govt should have engaged a separate
entity with considerable experience in cross mapping validating and moving
data to build these interfaces. Had this happened then the delivery would
have paved a potential path for intersoftware movement of some core data -
hopefully devoid commercial dominance. At the very least transfer from
health -e link into my chosen software could be considered reasonable and
plausible. Maybe even interface engines software to software. The direct
commercial pathway with individual vendors allows (or allowed?) vendors a
commercial luxury to keep the data extraction interface under wraps - good
for share holders "less good" for open movement of patient records between
systems.
Thanks Craig
I don't know much about the NSW Healh-e-link project.
1. Has it finished as you imply?
2. Were any tools developed to allow data extraction / transfer?
David
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