HL7AU - FHIR WG : NACCHO/RACGP 05Dec

overview

National Guide is out 3rd edition

Improvement Foundation - collaborative wave/programs

Workshop - determining requirements in this space

Resource development

  • health assessments etc.
  • young people checks
  • decision making tools
  • patient education resources

Phase 2 - software improvement

  • improve identification rates

discussion

  • consensus on requirements and prioritisation is helpful
  • letter templates exist - weak on atomic data
  • there are variations in how care is desired to be delivered
  • client portals are a mechanism 
  • vendors: Healius, BP, Communicare, Zedmed, CDMNet, MMeX, Medical Director
  • key performance indicators maintained nationally would be helpful
  • health assessment 715; nKPI well supported - not much has been changed for many years > 5 years
  • feedback from users would be appreciated by all vendors (consolidation)

brainstorm

  • opportunistic care
  • social and genetic identification
  • guideline rules formalisation
    • terminology (conditions, immunisation, observations, results) - understanding status/action 
    • actions / timing of actions - recurrence, age range, schedules, look ahead opportunistic, catch-up regimes 
    • demographic  (identification)
      • names
      • date of birth
      • indigenous status
  • ability to check current status - conditions, observations, immunisations availability standardised
  • overlap with mainstream - get benefit assure good support for requirements
  • patient education tracking (relates to administering actions in guidelines)

aims

Identification

  • identification as ATSI 
  • sometimes mandatory
  • not ethnicity
  • maybe a national system
  • Medicare claiming rules on enforcing eligibility requirements as recorded status
  • clarity on not asked vs not status (inadequate)
  • identity - affects workflow and capability 
  • info on why to identify as ATSI
  • patient apps to collect the information (patient focused questionnaires)
  • prompting? limited time prompting
  • confirming demographics as part of an appointment
  • sometime patients don't want to identify until they are comfortable
  • sometimes front desk does not want to ask - social issues at reception
  • appointment providers (can they provide)

Is indigenous status apparent on patient header screen

  • guide on how this should appear
  • maybe an icon

Continuity of care

  • include in text of referral (derived templates) - which text to show for that status
  • can be done in standards as atomic data
  • structured care plans and guidelines - links to terminology

Health Assessments

  • expiry of measurements guidelines
  • quality: safe / personalised / effective / coordinated care