PCEHR launch to the moon
During the Health Informatics Conference in Brisbane in August 2011, the CEO of Australia’s National E-health Transition Authority, Peter Fleming, likened building the national system of Personally Controlled Electronic Health Records (PCEHR) to putting a man on the moon.Well let’s … Continue reading
Australian Medicines Terminology browser update
Healthbase Australia has updated the online Australian Medicines Terminology browser to include the 2.26 version of the AMT released by NEHTA today. All deprecated versions are still available for browsing/searching. I can only assume that no-one else in Australia is … Continue reading
Australian Medicines Terminology update
Healthbase Australia has updated the online Australian Medicines Terminology browser to include the 2.25 version of the AMT recently released by NEHTA. All deprecated versions are still available for browsing/searching. I can only assume that no-one else in Australia is … Continue reading
Building on the RIGHT foundations
I have, on a number of occasions over the past decade, tried to explain the importance of building software, systems, national infrastructure, etc. on the right foundations. Other people who do this in the e-health arena often talk purely about … Continue reading
Australian Medicines Terminology Browser update for AMT Release 2.24
Healthbase Australia has updated the online Australian Medicines Terminology browser to include the 2.24 version of the AMT released by NEHTA this afternoon. All deprecated versions are still available for browsing/searching. Once again, it is a pity the download process … Continue reading
Australian Medicines Terminology Upgrade
Healthbase Australia has updated the online Australian Medicines Terminology browser to include the 2.23 version of the AMT released by NEHTA yesterday. All deprecated versions are still available for browsing/searching. Once again, it is a pity the download process … Continue reading
Australian Medicines Terminology – April 2011
Healthbase Australia has updated the online Australian Medicines Terminology browser to include the 2.22 version of the AMT released by NEHTA this morning. Although no mention is made in the release notes that accompany NEHTA’s release, the following … Continue reading
Surfing the PCEHR Waves
Well, it’s just a little over 14 months till the launch of Australia’s Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record (PCEHR). And we have already seen two ‘waves’ of grant funded ‘implementations’ announced by Health Minister Nicola Roxon. The PCEHR draft ‘Concept of … Continue reading
Australian Medicines Terminology – March 2011 Release
Healthbase Australia has updated the online Australian Medicines Terminology browser to include the 2.21 version of the AMT released by NEHTA a few days ago. All deprecated versions are still available for browsing/searching. The latest NEHTA release includes a useful Refset … Continue reading
Inching towards standardised pathology messages
Fortunately, I’m now almost old enough to have forgotten the christmas pudding ritual – helping my father cut up the suet, spread out on sheets of newspaper on the dining room table. In those days, I was then already tall … Continue reading