I used to enjoy writing Dear Doctor
Pleas admit Mr X who has poisoned himself with alcohol Yours etc It never failed to have them admitted. > On Sunday 29 July 2007 22:32:59 Tony Lembke wrote: > > Does anyone know if the federal legislation has been changed such > > that digitally signed and delivered referral letters are adequate to > > satisfy Medicare requirements? > > If so, do we know the signing requirements? > > Thanks, > > Tony Lembke > Tony, this has been the subject of many long discussions. > A Medicare referral must be either: > - printed on a piece of paper and physically signed; or > - signed with a HeSA Individual certificate. > > GnuPG and HeSA Location certificates don't cut it. > Storing a scan doesn't cut it (unless the scanned image file is then signed > with a HeSA Individual certificate) > I'm unsure about the status of faxes. > > What's more important, and often get's missed, is the letters we get like > this: > > Dear Psychiatry registrar, > > Re: Ms. Borderline, DOB 23/3/1984 > > Thankyou for seeing this 23-year-old woman who told me today she wants to > kill > herself. > > Yours sincerely, > > GP > > Not that anyone on this list has written such a thing, I'm sure. > > When I'm in private practice I do *not* want letters like this unless they're > attached to something I can assess and section if required, and if you think > there's all these specialists out there with a greater interest in electronic > messaging, think again. > > IMHO what is achievable is a URL printed on the bottom of the referral letter > which allows the specialist to download the contents of the letter directly > into their EMR once having seen the patient, thus populate demographic > details of the patient and GP, and (in the fullness of time) medication > lists, etc. > > Ian > _______________________________________________ > Gpcg_talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk David de Bhal www.v-practice.com _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
