SA discharge summaries
August 26, 2013
NINE hospitals in South Australia
are now providing electronic
patient discharge summary
information to the National eHealth
Record System, for patients that
have a Personally Controlled
Electronic Health Record (PCEHR).
A mandatory policy directive
covering the move was issued
last month by SA Health, as part
of the agency’s “strategies to
deliver on aspects of its state-wide
commitment under the national
health reform agreement”.
Under the policy, clinicians are
responsible to ensure that an
electronic Discharge Summary
is created and distributed to the
National eHalth system where a
patient has a PCEHR, with support
centre staff requested to administer
patient and medical staff requests
for PCEHR Maintenance within a
reasonable timeframe.
And all hospital staff that come
into contact with patients are
now responsible for knowing and
enacting the process for PCEHR
maintenance activities which
are administered by the Clinical
Solutions Support Centre.
Only nine hospitals are currently
affected, with others exempted
from the policy because they
don’t currently have the required
technical capabilities.
According to Pulse IT, the system
is based on a new IT solution, with
a database bridging between the
hospital and eHealth systems.
The innovation is also understood
to be under consideration by other
state health departments including
Western Australia, Queensland,
Tasmania and the NT.
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