Digital Health Update

Digital Health

An update from our digital health team, including relevant resources and news relating to quality improvement activities, training, integrated care, and general support.

You can get in touch with our digital health team by emailing digitalhealthinfo@ adelaidephn.com.au.

Secure Messaging

The SA Health Secure Message Delivery (SMD) rollout is in full swing and has attracted positive feedback from GP practices and Specialist sites around the state who are receiving electronic discharge summaries directly into their GP practice software (e.g., Medical Director, Best Practice, ZedMed, Communicare).

So far, 410 practices have been activated and we await the remaining eligible sites to return their consent forms. • SMD invitations have been emailed by SA Health.

These are titled “SA Health:

Secure Messaging - Address Confirmation Required” and were sent to the email address listed in the Health Provider

Registry. Please check your email address and update your details if required • If you haven’t yet returned your invitation, we encourage you to send your confirmation back • If you haven’t received an invitation or would like more information, please refer to the

FAQs here or contact the SA

Health SMD team at Health.

SecureMessageDeliverySupport @sa.gov.au To learn more about SA Health’s rollout of SMD and how to become eligible for activation, please see here. Please note that some document types will remain delivered via fax, ShareFile or post until further IT developments are completed. SA Health is also working on the ability to receive electronic referrals from GPs, however this is not available now. For any queries around SMD, please contact Adelaide PHN’s Digital Health Team via digitalhealthinfo@ adelaidephn.com.au.

My Health Record

Adelaide PHN is working with the Australian Digital Health Agency to increase the uptake of My Health Record within specialist practices and community health organisations.

Benefits of integrating My Health Record into your workflow include: • Reduced adverse drug events • Enhanced patient selfmanagement • Improvements in patient outcomes • Reduced time gathering clinical information • Minimised duplication of services Whilst more software becomes conformant, health care providers can still access a patient’s My Health Record through the National Provider Portal. Health care providers will need to register for an individual Provider Digital Access (PRODA) account and will gain access once linked to their organisation. More information about accessing My Health Record through the National Provider Portal can be found here. In the specialist space, software vendor Genie has recently added the ability for specialist letters to be uploaded directly to a patient’s My Health Record, allowing other health care providers involved in their care to quickly and readily view that information. Having registered for access and running the latest version of Genie, specialist health care providers can tick the ‘Send Copy to MHR’ checkbox whilst authoring a letter to easily complete a specialist letter upload. In case you missed our latest My Health Record webinars, you can watch them on our YouTube channel here.

COVID-19 Vaccination Dashboard

The main change for consumers is a new COVID-19 vaccination dashboard, displaying information from the Australian Immunisation Register and My Health Record related to a consumer’s COVID-19 vaccination journey. The dashboard includes vaccination details, COVID-19 test results, relevant medicines and allergy information from My Health Record and links to the COVID-19 vaccine clinic finder and side effect checker. The dashboard is available to consumers from a new COVID-19 Dashboard tab and can be used as a quick reference when answering questions before a vaccination or booster dose or to get proof of vaccination. From the dashboard patients can: • Check when your second vaccination or booster is due • Download proof of past vaccinations • Save your COVID-19 digital certificate to a digital wallet • See your recent COVID-19 PCR test results (if uploaded) • See any history of anaphylaxis, recent medicines, medical conditions, and recent vaccinations in your record • Link to the COVID-19 vaccine clinic finder and side effect checker Preview the new dashboard and its features here.

Are you utilising e-requesting of pathology and uploading into My Heath Record within your practice?

Sharing results with My Health Record reduces duplicate testing and improves patient care and health outcomes. Electronic requesting transfers pathology and diagnostic imaging requests from general practice clinical information systems (CISs) to participating providers via secure electronic communications.

The use of eRequesting enables some results to be uploaded into My Health Record. Pathology or diagnostic imaging reports from urban and rural public hospitals around Australia are now uploading to My Health Record, and therefore can be viewed by GPs. The number of private pathology and diagnostic imaging providers uploading to My Health Record will continue to increase over time. With reports uploaded into My Health Record, patients have better access to their own health care information, which they can then share with their health care providers. To set up your practice, you need to ensure you’re using a compatible CIS. Then, contact your preferred provider to have eRequesting downloaded and enabled between your systems. Once the functionality is turned on, eRequesting will occur automatically. View the up-to-date list of the general practice CISs and participating providers here. For more information on how to view reports using your CISs or PRODA, please visit the Australian Digital Health Agency’s website here. If you need any assistance with setting up eRequesting or viewing reports through My Health Record, contact the Digital Health Team on digitalhealthinfo@adelaidephn.com.au.

Further information and support

Our dedicated team are here to support any digital health related enquiries, including -

• General digital health enquiries • PenCS data quality tools • My Health Record • NASH Certificates • PRODA • Australian Immunisation Register support • Telehealth • E-Pathology • Electronic prescriptions • Secure messaging • Clinical templates

For further information and/or support, please contact our Digital Health Team via digitalhealthinfo@adelaidephn.com.au or phone 8219 5900.