Finally the Department of Health Releases a Description of the PCEHR. Does It Make Sense?

The 6 page document can be downloaded from here.

http://moreassoc.com.au/downloads/DoHA%20Fact%20Sheet%20No%201.pdf

The file is a .pdf and about 2.5 megs.

It seems to be the basic idea of all this is that their PCEHR will have a basic record for the absolute clinical basics and pull everything else in from current systems. It is very much like the US Health Information Exchange approach as best I can tell.

A grand vision that will take ages to implement! Note it will be easy to have people register to have something that won’t deliver for years into the future!

David.