National Healthlink e-referrals user group
Discussion
posted by Jon Herries on 21 March 2012
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Place for discussion the development of e-referrals, on the Healthlink platform.
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by Debbutterfield
from Wairarapa
Member since 22 Mar 2012
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Hi there,
John Kirkup (our Performance analysis reporting person) says in reply to Di's comment:
Totally agree around data dictionary, definition of fields and standardising reporting. If they have built the reports in Reporting Services there’s no reason we can’t implement them here if we have access to the same data set for our referrals.
Can Capitol and Coast reply about this for us?? Ie what are you using for reporting..? Thanks
by diannedavis
from Northland
Member since 26 Jul 2011
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Hi Deb,
Great idea. Would be really helpful if we extracted the same data, great for comparative analysis. It is a bit of a challenge as I am aware we are all using different terminology though on the whole they mean the same thing. Convergence on a standard would be ideal in the future, perhaps a data dictionary covering what we use and their definitions would be useful in the meantime.
We currently have exception reporting when referrals exceed are predefined time frame for each of the states of a referrals progress. We also report when a referral is not printed prior to it reaching the appropriate state. So currently all reporting is about ensuring correct process.
With the enhanced version of RMS lite having moved us into electronic Prioritisation we now have significant data we can extract to look at both referral and Prioritisation behavior of clincians. We are just waiting to get access to these views from Healthlink.
As this is a hosted system our own DHB data analysts will be writing the queries once we have acess to our data, Healthlink will not be setting up anything but the access.
I assume we are all in the same boat on this one so not really an issue with what we ask Healthlink to do, rather getting some consistency on what we all extract and feeding back on how useful it is.
So from our perspective, now is a great time to be sharing thoughts on what reports we build.
by Debbutterfield
from Wairarapa
Member since 22 Mar 2012
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Hello- I am interested in starting a discussion of what reporting is currently undertaken on eReferrals. We have done a fairly sketchy job so far in terms of ongoing operational reporting of eReferrals and are keen to improve on this as part of our planned upgrade to the Care Connect forms.
Can group members please contribute what they are reporting on and how they are currently doing their reporting.
I am thinking that there will be an almost 100% commonality in the type of information needs that we as DHBs have..should we be asking Healthlink to provide some of the infomation as opposed to each of us reinventing the wheel?? Just a thought.
Thanks
Deb
by Debbutterfield
from Wairarapa
Member since 22 Mar 2012
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Hi Di thanks for the updates and was great to talk to you earlier this week. We are in the throes of getting the Migration Spec signed off with Healthlink to move to the eReferrals Care Connect version of the forms, and hopefully to be able to reuse what you have done with your ePrioritisation side of things..be great to get a copy of your specs if we could?
On another note- we had a meeting with the C&CDHB and HVDHB eReferrals folk (thanks again to them for coming over to the Wairarapa) so that we could discuss means of improved tracking of referrals from the Wairarapa to those DHBs..possibly using RMS Lite as a vehicle..meeting went well and we have identified some prospective ways forward.
by diannedavis
from Northland
Member since 26 Jul 2011
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Hi all,
We have just released our enhanced version of RMS lite that supports electronic prioritisation. We are rolling out service by service and to date the ones using it are pleased, simple and quick.
We have finalised our specifications for the migration to the new platfrom and am happy to share that with anyone.
The migration has given us the opportunity to make some improvements to our colorectal form that address the issues we have known about for some time. It will be exciting to evaluate the effect of these changes.
We are also dropping some of the customised fields from the Breast form in an attempt to improve it. This form has been a great lesson that customisation done without there being a rigorous process to ensure there is a geniuine problem to solve can be detrimental to referral quality.
Heathlink can provide you with views of what these forms will look like in the new system if you are interested. There is much background to these forms amd really need to be viewed with that context. I am happy to talk through these forms if anyone is interested.
by diannedavis
from Northland
Member since 26 Jul 2011
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Hi all,,
I'm not nomally an early adopter so a big step for me making this entry.
Thansk to all for your participiation last week, lots of potential for great stuff if we just keep talking and sharing.
My main concern at present is moving to the new paltform with the scanned documents but with a 2 mb data cap so keen to see what we can all do to resolve this one as a top priority.
Very happy to share with anyone our experiences, especually Hawkes bay to ensure the expectations are relaistic from clincians.
When any of you are ready to start exploring customised forms would be keen to get our relevant clincians talking to your ones. They know the good, bad and the ugly of our customised forms and together they could perhaps develop the next iteration.
Happy to share our specs for the enahncments we are doing to RMS lite to roll out ePrioritisaton. Leart heaps doing these and getting ready ofr roll out. Roll out scheduled for may 1st, now doubt lots to learn from that, hopefully no need fo body armour.