openEHR has proven to be a sound methodology for detailed clinical modelling, particularly for underpinning electronic health records, but also for sharing clinical information between systems. Some of its key characteristics are:- Two level modelling, underpinned by well-designed, stable and tested Reference Model. Reference model designed specifically for EHR systems. Comprehensive, clinician-authored building blocks – […]

HL7 messages are the lifeblood of electronic health communication in many settings in many countries. In the healthcare sector in Australia, for example, they are ubiquitous in hospital settings for notification of patient Admissions, Discharges and Transfers and they are ubiquitous in both hospital and primary care settings for reporting pathology results to the ordering […]

Last year in Australia there was an agreement amongst a number of parties, led by the Australian Department of Health, for the results of diagnostic tests to be sent to the national electronic health record system for accessing by both care providers and the individuals for whom the tests were performed. The current proposal to […]

On its  shiny new website  under About NEHTA , NEHTA now starts its strategy statement with: “With the foundations built, the infrastructure in place…“. Nothing can be further from the truth. No amount of shouting from the rooftops, even by NEHTA’s Chairman, can change the facts. Most of us involved at the coalface of e-health know only too well […]

Healthbase Australia has updated the free online Australian Medicines Terminology browser to include version 2.54 of the AMT released by NEHTA today. All deprecated versions will also  be available again for browsing/searching in the next few days.  Unfortunately, the  Healthbase AMT server had a major  hardware failure and has been replaced by a Mac Mini […]

Healthbase Australia has updated the free online Australian Medicines Terminology browser to include version 2.51 of the AMT released by NEHTA today. All deprecated versions are still available for browsing/searching.

Healthbase Australia has updated the free online Australian Medicines Terminology browser to include version 2.50 of the AMT released by NEHTA today. All deprecated versions are still available for browsing/searching.

It is now over eighteen months since I publicly aired my grave concerns regarding a  critical safety issue for Australia’s Personally Controlled Electronic Health Records (PCEHR) system, which centred around the lack of scrutiny of the quality of data in CDA documents to be contributed to people’s records. I have no idea if anyone other […]

Healthbase Australia has updated the free online Australian Medicines Terminology browser to include the 2.49 version of the AMT released by NEHTA today. All deprecated versions are still available for browsing/searching.

Healthbase Australia has updated the free online Australian Medicines Terminology browser to include the 2.48 version of the AMT released by NEHTA today. All deprecated versions are still available for browsing/searching.