Coordinated care

This release of the Discharge Summary includes the following changes to the Discharge Summary My Health Record Conformance Profile: Revision of HPI-I relaxation with change in document version from 1.6 to 1.7 Update to the 2.3.3 Relaxation inclusions for HPI-I Discharge Summary documents support the transfer of a patient from a hospital back to the care…

eReferral documents facilitate the transmission of significant patient information from one treating healthcare provider to another for the purpose of making a request for further diagnosis or treatment. The My Health Record system supports the collection of eReferral documents. When a healthcare provider creates an eReferral document, it will be sent…

Event Summary documents are used to capture key health information about significant healthcare events that are relevant to the ongoing care of an individual. Event Summary documents can be submitted to an individual’s digital health record by any participating organisation. For example, an Event Summary document could be submitted by an after-hours…

The previous eReferral clinical document specifications were constrained to supporting referrals from a General Practitioner to a private specialist. Referrals to public hospitals, allied health providers or human services providers were not supported. The Service Referral v1.1 specifications expand this scope of use to include any referrals for healthcare…

Specialist Letter documents are used in replying to a referral or reporting on a health event and contain information related to the event or the requested diagnosis or treatment by a specialist. When a specialist creates a Specialist Letter document, it will be sent directly to the intended recipient, as per current practices. A copy may also be sent to…