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
Conflicts in pathology
A common theme in e-health, particularly in Australia, is the often conflicting perspective of different participants in the healthcare landscape. I’d like to highlight a couple of these in the diagnostic testing arena. The first is a ‘business‘ issue – … Continue reading
New SNOMED CT-AU online browser
An online browser of the healthcare terminology managed by NEHTA and proposed for future use in clinical information systems, clinical registries and research has been developed by Andrew Patterson and is available at: Federation Health . It currently includes browsing and … Continue reading
The squandering of wisdom
I started out titling this post “the getting of wisdom”, but slowly came around to acknowledge that there has been some real wisdom generated in health informatics over the years – it just seems to mysteriously dissipate like dry ice … Continue reading
A plea from one patient
I’ve just had a consultation for blocked ears, with a GP at a busy Adelaide clinic. People have told me I don’t listen, but this was definitely a hearing problem. GP took a swab, cleaned me out, gave me a computer-printed prescription … Continue reading
Australian Medicines Terminology upgrade
Healthbase Australia has updated the online Australian Medicines Terminology browser to the 2.15 version released by NEHTA today. AMT Browser (Healthbase Australia). All deprecated versions are still available for browsing/searching. Pity the download process cannot be automated. Perhaps if this … Continue reading