PCEHR and Pathology Reports

Fionna Granger First Assistant Secretary Operations Branch, eHealth Department of Health 15 October 2013

00Document title

Date

Why do we need electronic health records? 18% of medical errors caused by inadequate availability of

patient information

Year ending 30 Sept 2011, Australians spent 262 million nights away from home

Every week 34% of GPs treat a patient for whom they have no current information

Economic modelling undertaken by Deloitte (2010-2011) estimates that the direct benefits of the PCEHR will be worth approximately $11.5 billion over 15 years.

Current system

• Shared Health Summaries

• Event Summaries

• Discharge Summaries

• Specialist letters

• eReferrals

•Prescription and dispense records

National

Prescription and

Dispense

Repository

Medicare

Repository

Current system

•Medicare History

• PBS History

• Organ Donor

• Childhood

immunisations

Reports

Medicare

Consumers and

their

Representatives

Healthcare

Providers

Current PCEHR System

Reporting

Users

Record Management

Information Sources Views, Searches and

Reports

Healthcare

Providers (via

clinical

systems)

Search

Views

Search

Views

Current system

• Consumer health summary

• Consumer entered notes

•Consumer entered child data (CeHR) –

portal and mobile app

Consumers and

their

Representatives

PCEHR

System Core

Services

X

Features of the Australian eHealth record

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What’s captured by the PCEHR?

Supporting Healthcare Providers

• The system is designed to be integrated into existing local clinical information systems

• Faster and easier access to patients’ health information means faster, holistic, safer care

• Approximately 90% of all GP clinical software is now PCEHR compliant

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Charting progress: PCEHR Adoption

Over, 970,000 consumers have registered for an eHealth record.

An average of 6,500 Australians are signing up per day for an eHealth record.

5,517 healthcare organisations (HPI-Os) have registered for access to the PCEHR,

covering all the health care providers who work in them.

The PCEHR currently contains about 30,000 clinical documents, and is growing at

a rate of approx. 2,500 documents a week.

There are nearly 27,000 consumer entered health summaries, 239,975 childhood

immunisation records, and 120,762 organ donor registry documents.

Future Functionality

Key Priorities:

• Advance Care documents

• NT My eHealth Record, including:

• Diagnostic Imagery reports

• Pathology reports

Pathology Reports

• Sharing of pathology report information via the PCEHR will:

• Support continuity of care;

• Increase visibility for individuals to manage their own healthcare; and

• Potentially decrease duplication of tests.

• More information @ ehealth.gov.au and nehta.gov.au

Questions?