My Health Record Newsletter Update for Pharmacists & Allied Health - June Edition

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WHAT'S NEW

Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network will no longer auto-fax discharge summaries to GPs

From 21 May at The Children’s Hospital, Westmead and 1 June at Sydney Children’s Hospital, Randwick, discharge summaries from SCHN will be sent electronically to GPs, HeatheNet and the My Health Record (MHR) via electronic messaging brokers Argus, Healthlink and Medical Objects. SCH will no longer auto-fax discharge summaries to GPs.

Read more here.

Organisation Readiness Checklist Publication

The Australian Digital Health Agency (ADHA) has recently released a three page organisation readiness for MHR checklist for healthcare organisations, covering helpline contacts, awareness, information to register an organisation, configure software, policies and education and supporting information.

Click here to download a copy.

New e-Learning CPD accredited course for Nurses now available 

The ADHA in partnership with the Australian College of Nursing (ACN) has released the new My Health Record in Nursing e-learning course. The course will support all nurses in understanding and using the My Health Record system.

The course contains five modules:
Module 1 - An Introduction to My Health Record
Module 2 - Clinical Documents and Patient-Entered Information
Module 3 - Accessing, Viewing and Uploading to My Health Record
Module 4 - My Health Record Privacy, Security and Consent
Module 5 - Supporting Patients’ Use of My Health Record

Each module has been endorsed by the ACN for CPD points.

Media release: Digitally enabled healthcare: Nurses to benefit from new online My Health Record training.

Note: New CPD-accredited modules for Allied Health and Pharmacy were also recently released and the GP (CPD accredited) and Hospital modules are also available.

New Factsheets

New factsheets for specialists, residential aged care, allied health and indigenous services have been released on the stakeholder material website to assist healthcare providers to use My Health Record (MHR) with their patients.

New factsheets have also been released for nurses:

• Overview of My Health Record for community nurses
• Overview of My Health Record for nurses

Webinar for Pharmacists: My Health Record using Fred Dispense

CESPHN held a live webinar on Tuesday 21 May which demonstrated how pharmacists can access My Health Record via Fred Dispense software, specifically, how to:

• Validate a patient’s IHI to connect to My Health Record
• View a patient’s My Health Record and access clinical documents
• View a patient’s My Health Record with access code restrictions in place
• Upload a dispense record to My Health Record and change consent
• Upload an event summary to My Health Record containing allergies & conditions
• Add a new pharmacist, retrieve and validate a HPI-I
• Enable pharmacist access to the My Health Record within Fred Dispense

A recording of the webinar can be accessed here.

Embedding My Health Record in General Practice Resource

The Agency has produced a PowerPoint slide deck: ‘Embedding My Health Record in General Practice’, outlining roles and responsibilities for staff along with some user journey scenarios. The workflows have been created in editable templates to allow customisation, that can be accessed here.

Pharmacist Shared Medicines List (PSML)

PSML is set be a new feature of the MHR system, with the aim of enhancing medicines safety. Accessed through the medicines information view of MHR, it is a pharmacist-written, reconciled list detailing both prescription and non-prescription medicines (including over the counter and complementary medicines) taken by patients with chronic conditions. It represents what the patient is known to be taken at the time it was created by the pharmacist. According to the latest draft of PSA MHR guidelines, PSMLs can be created based on different sources such as a reconciled hospital discharge medicines list, dose administration aid medicines list, and after providing a professional service such as a Meds Check, Home Medicines Review or Residential Medication Management Review. See the guidelines here.

The second half of this year will see a pilot implementation into hospital pharmacies and community pharmacies and it is not anticipated to be widely accessible until next year.

Updated Aquarius Manual

The Aquarius MHR manual has been updated and released.

Click here to download (version May 2019).

SA Pathology

South Australian (SA) Pathology has recently gone live and commenced uploading to MHR.

SA Pathology will upload reports from tests requested in hospital, including outpatients and also by GPs and private specialists. 50% of SA Pathology work is externally referred and they have collection centres state-wide.

SA consumers will be able to take any request form to a SA Pathology collection centre and their report will be uploaded to MHR.

The only other place in Australia where this is possible is in Brisbane if consumers select Mater Pathology.

MHR helps Australia prep for record flu season

Emergency doctor and epidemiologist Dr Andrew Jeremijenko explains why, this flu season, it is more important than ever that clinicians have access to up-to-date patient medical information. “MHR enables communication to flow, ensuring all Australians can have a proactive conversation with their clinician about the flu vaccine. MHR allows doctors to see if the patients have had the vaccine or not, and if they fit the high risk groups they can strongly recommend the vaccine.”

Read more here.

MHR – a vital tool in Asthma Management

For healthcare providers assisting patients with asthma management, MHR is a vital tool providing access to more information, improving visibility on the patient’s dispensed medications and shared health summary. Read more here.

Seeking My Health Record Champions - consumers and healthcare providers 

Now that most Australians have a My Health Record, the Agency is looking to produce a suite of case study videos which demonstrate clear benefits of use. They are looking for both consumers and healthcare providers who have experienced a real benefit from using My Health Record.

They are keen to feature stories where a harmful event was prevented, a life saved, or the quality and continuity of care improved. They are particularly interested to show benefit for parents of young children, the elderly, teens, people with a complex health condition, and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

Stories relating to every day benefits such as time savings, health information in one place, security and privacy, accessible anywhere anytime - are also sought after.

Do you know someone who might be interested in sharing their story? Please get in touch by Friday 7 June 2019 at Robert.Corrigan@digitalhealth.gov.au.

GOOD NEWS STORIES

PDL Alert

Pharmaceutical Defence Limited has sent out a Practice Alert to guide pharmacists regarding My Health Record, that can be accessed here.

EDUCATION RESOURCES (Previous webinars)

My Health Record for Aged Care

This webinar for aged care professionals working in residential aged care or community aged care sectors included the following learning outcomes:

• Increased understanding of My Health Record including the stronger privacy laws
• How My Health Record may improve outcomes for aged care consumers and increase efficiencies for staff
• A case study overview

For your reference: 

Presentation slides: click here to download

My Health Record & Pathology

This webinar outlined what is being introduced in the pathology sector in relation to the My Health Record system, including the uploading of reports, the consent framework and design. It also covered what are the benefits for those working in the sector as well as current diagnostic connections. 

For your reference: 

Presentation slides: click here to download

My Health Record for Dentistry

This webinar for dentists and dental practice staff provided an overview of benefits and functionality of My Health Record for dental practices as well as providing advice on how to register your organisation. 

For your reference:

Presentation slides: Click here to download

My Health Record for Physiotherapists, Podiatrists & Occupational Therapists

This webinar explained how accessing the My Health Record system can increase your efficiency and help you provide improved patient care and care coordination.

This webinar was targeted for Physiotherapists, Podiatrists, and Occupational Therapists, however all other allied health care providers can benefit from the resource.

For your reference:

Presentation slides: Click here to download

REMINDERS

Better Connections Survey

The Australian Digital Health Agency is facilitating a national conversation to develop a blueprint for a more modern, digitally connected health system. Please complete the survey “Better Connections: Your health, your say” before it expires on 14 June.

https://conversation.digitalhealth.gov.au/have-your-say

Support your patients

The My Health Record website has a page with links to a range of resources including videos, brochures and fact sheets that have been developed to help you support your patients.

MHR & Pathology results

If your patient has a MHR, pathology reports could be uploaded by the pathology laboratory and made available for patient viewing seven days after. This gives clinicians time to review the report and if necessary, contact the patient to discuss the results prior. There is also a link to Lab Tests online available in the MHR consumer view of results to help explain pathology results, but patients should not be contacting pathology lab themselves to explain the results.

UPCOMING WEBINARS

Accredited Webinar: Enabling the Clinical Use of My Health Record in Pharmacy

The Australian Digital Health Agency will be holding a national accredited live webinar for pharmacists.

Learning Objectives:

• Improved understanding of My Health Record benefits, features and functionality
• Describe the processes involved in implementing and adopting My Health Record as part of your clinical workflow
• Describe the privacy and security obligations of the pharmacy profession in relation to My Health Record, and how this can be communicated to patients
• Describe how to utilise My Health Record to benefit patient care via use of the access, view and upload function of a patient’s clinical documents
• Describe where to access further information and support resources about My Health Record

Accreditation: CX180091
This activity has been accredited for 2 hours of Group 1 CPD (or 2 CPD credits) suitable for inclusion in an individual pharmacist’s CPD plan which can be converted to 2 hours of Group 2 CPD (or 4 CPD credits) upon successful completion of relevant assessment activities.

Competency Standards (2016)
1.2.1, 1.3.1, 1.3.2, 1.3.3, 1.3.4, 1.6.1, 2.1.2, 2.1.3, 2.2.1, 2.4.2, 3.1.1, 3.1.2, 3.1.3, 3.3.1, 3.3.2

• Date & Time: 7.00 - 9.00pm (AEST time) on Wednesday 19th June 2019
• Presenter: Australian Digital Health Agency
• Where: Online (join via your computer - register beforehand. Registrations close 24 hours prior to the event)
• Registration link: https://login.redbackconferencing.com.au/landers/page/972508

Note: Registrations for this webinar will close 24 hours prior to the event. A copy of the presentation will be made available following the event to individuals who have registered to attend the webinar.

FINAL MY HEALTH RECORD WORKSHOPS

CESPHN will be holding 2 final workshops on My Health Record this month. If you have not attended these before, it is highly recommended that you attend and RSVP as soon as possible – do not miss out!

My Health Record and Data Quality in your Practice

The workshop will focus around My Health Record usage and application using Best Practice and Medical Director, as well as draw upon other topics such as 5th Edition Standards or QI PIP and data extraction tools.

Presenter: Katrina Otto, Managing Director and Owner at Train IT Medical
Target audience: GPs, practice managers, practice nurses.
Event Date: Tuesday 18 June 2019
Time: 6pm Registration and Dinner. 6.30pm – 9pm workshop.
Address: Canada Bay Club - 4 William Street FIVE DOCK, NSW 2046 Australia
RSVP: myhealthrecord@cesphn.com.au by 12pm 18 June 2019

Be My Health Record Ready Workshop & Networking evening

This workshop will explore the My Health Record system and its medico-legal aspects to enable GPs, medical specialists, pharmacists and allied health professionals to confidently use the system. It will also allow opportunity for networking and questions. CPD points can be self-recorded.

Presenter: Australian Digital Health Agency & guest presenter Patricia Marinovic from HWL Ebsworth Lawyers
Target audience: GPs, Medical Specialists, Pharmacists, Allied Health, Aged Care
Event Date: 27 June 2019
Time: 6:30pm Registration, canapes, networking 7pm – 9pm workshop.
Address: Holiday Inn Potts Point, NSW 2011 Australia
RSVP: myhealthrecord@cesphn.com.au  by 12pm 27 June 2019