This popped up a few days ago:
Is Your Hospital Ready for the My Health Record Deadline?
22nd November 2024
Is Your Hospital Ready for the December 1 My Health Record Compliance Deadline?
By December 1, 2024, Australian hospitals are required to have a plan in place to upload clinical information, such as discharge summaries, to My Health Record (MHR). Starting in January 2025, accrediting agencies will be reviewing hospital compliance with these requirements, including monitoring and evaluating the implementation process.
Steps to Prepare for the December 1, 2024 Deadline
Hospitals have been preparing for this transition, and there are several key steps to ensure readiness by December 1:
- Audit Your Current Processes
Begin with an audit of your hospital’s discharge summary workflow. Identify areas where manual processes can be improved or automated to streamline uploads and minimise errors. - Engage Your Technology Providers
Work with your technology providers to confirm that your systems are compatible with MHR integration. Platforms like Civica’s Dox, a clinical documentation system, automate the discharge summary upload process, reducing workload and ensuring timely submissions. - Train Your Healthcare Team
Team engagement is critical for a smooth transition. Provide training for both clinical and administrative staff to emphasise the importance of accuracy and timeliness in uploading discharge summaries, highlighting the positive impact on patient care. - Implement Ongoing Monitoring
Regular compliance checks, including audits of discharge summary uploads, can help detect missed or delayed uploads early. A dedicated compliance team can track your hospital’s status and support continuous improvement efforts. - Keep Stakeholders Informed
Communication is key. Inform patients about the benefits of having their discharge summaries in MHR and keep external providers like GPs and specialists updated to foster a collaborative, patient-centred approach.
My Health Record: A New Era of Information Sharing
My Health Record is an Australian Government initiative that consolidates Australians' health information in a secure, accessible platform. Since its inception, MHR adoption has expanded, giving healthcare providers from GPs to specialists and hospitals access to critical health information whenever needed. This integration helps reduce risks from fragmented or outdated data, providing a more seamless care experience.
Discharge summaries include essential information about a patient’s treatment, prescribed medications, and follow-up care recommendations, which are vital for continued care. Preparing now will ensure that your hospital meets the requirements smoothly and effectively.
Embracing Compliance as an Opportunity
Meeting this new standard, signals to patients that your hospital prioritises quality and safety. Patients benefit from better-coordinated care, while your hospital stands out as a leader in patient-centred digital healthcare. With the deadline fast approaching, now is the time to finalise preparations and embrace the benefits of a connected healthcare ecosystem.
Email us to learn how we can help you navigate this important transition.
Here is the link:
https://www.civica.com/en-au/insights/is-your-hospital-ready-for-the-my-health-record-deadline/
I would love to hear from those who find the level of readiness is not all that might be desired!
I suspect there will be more than one!
David.
Desperate silliness best describes the inept reasoning behind this latest move by the ADHA.
ReplyDeleteThey are desperately trying to shovel more stuff (stuff more stuff) into a simplistically designed bucket of rubbish (rubbish bin) all the while telling us all that the My Health Record is not fit for purpose and needs to be redesigned!!!!!
Forgive me for saying that my Hospital Board has decided to do nothing until the MHR has been redeveloped, tested and proven, under stress, in a busy major teaching hospital pilot site.
Surely that is not unreasonable?
I am sure the private hospitals are falling over themselves to divert resources to achieve this.
ReplyDeleteSome questions David
ReplyDelete1. Why is the Commonwealth Government promoting a COTS product - Civica’s Dox? Why this product and who selected it and are the conflict of interest issues at play?
2. What happen if a hospital does not comply?
3. Is the Commonwealth Government now dictating that the My Heath Record is a standard? and are expecting everyone to be confirm any? Is that not over reach?
1. Yes this is odd and goes against core public services rules, that aside it’s not even an Aussie company. Guess ADHA is there for connected wealthcare
DeleteI am a bit confused - the ADHA has been boasting about all the public hospitals uploading for years. What does this do other than fuel conferences, power points and drain resources. Sounds a bit like “we are a third world healthcare system” and only ADHA can save us
ReplyDeleteBig bureaucratically driven government IT projects inevitably fail and the cost of fixing them is hundreds of millions / billions of dollars. The failures follow, not because they are under-resourced (they usually have plenty of resources) but because they aren’t governed effectively. They are poorly planned, poorly envisaged, and poorly managed. The Qld Payroll system and Robodebt were huge failures; as for the My Health Record you can draw your own conclusions.
ReplyDeleteIt's more than likely the HIE tender will be awarded to Telstra/CSIRO, for the Telstra Smile HIE.
ReplyDeleteThe Health Information Exchange by Telstra, a ready made solution for the ADHA and My Health Record?
ReplyDeletehttps://www.telstrahealth.com/redefining-the-health-information-exchange-in-australia-and-beyond-telstra-health-and-smile-digital-health-announce-strategic-partnership-for-interoperability/
Whatever the technology answer, we still have that longstanding issue. Health IT implementations are run by armatures with no idea how to implement systems. A friend in Queensland who is on the receiving end passed this on to me. It's a classic example of the wrong people selecting, designing, and risk managing a project—always in health.
ReplyDeleteQuote “ I think we need to stop saying the IT is Sh** and start saying there is a massive patient safety risk” one clinician said.
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Oh Sarah Conner that does not read positively. I am sure there will be lessons learned, blame shared and all the wrong people punished.
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