Australian Medicines Terminology Upgrade
Healthbase Australia has updated the online Australian Medicines Terminology browser to include the 2.18 version of the AMT released by NEHTA today. All deprecated versions are still available for browsing/searching. This upgrade detects and flags both erroneous concepts, and retired … Continue reading
Bridging the Gaps
Implementing a national Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record (PCEHR) system through grant funded proposals submitted by interested parties seems to me a strange way to implement national infrastructure of any kind. It might be a common mechanism for funding projects … Continue reading
Hiatus in Global HL7 CDA Challenge
Well it is now several months since I established the Global HL7 Challenge and the deadline for the first part of the challenge has just passed with no respondents. I can only put this down to a global lack of … Continue reading
banking on ehealth liquidity
The Australian Government has released its proposal for a “Competitive and Sustainable Banking System”, consisting of a number of parallel streams, the first of which includes:- “The Government will appoint former Reserve Bank of Australia Governor Bernie Fraser to conduct … Continue reading
Recasting e-health in the USA
On December the 8th, 2010 the US President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) published an extraordinary “Report to the President realizing the full potential of health information technology to improve healthcare for Americans: the path forward“. This … Continue reading
Anatomy of a PCEHR system
Well, two themes dominated the two day e-health summit in Melbourne this week:- Infectious enthusiasm vagueness of the PCEHR These two themes actually run hand in glove. Both the vagueness of the PCEHR model and the rampant optimism are in … Continue reading
Australian Medicines Terminology upgrade
Healthbase Australia has updated the online Australian Medicines Terminology browser to the 2.17 version released by NEHTA today. AMT Browser (Healthbase Australia). All deprecated versions are still available for browsing/searching. This upgrade also detects and flags both erroneous concepts, and … Continue reading
HealthConnect or Pink Bats Mark 2 ?
Amongst the frenetic activity arising from Health Minister Roxon’s promise to have a personally controlled health record (PCEHR) available to all Australians by July 2012, and her more recent announcement of a summit on the subject at the end of … Continue reading
Australian Medicines Terminology upgrade
Healthbase Australia has updated the online Australian Medicines Terminology browser to the 2.16 version released by NEHTA today. AMT Browser (Healthbase Australia). All deprecated versions are still available for browsing/searching. This upgrade now also detects and flags both erroneous … Continue reading
Patterns in pathology
I think it is important to lay out some principles for the capture, storage, display and communication of information derived from diagnostic tests – commonly labelled in Australia as pathology and radiology. In particular, I’m concerned about maximising the reuse … Continue reading