It Seems There Is More Activity On Patient Safety From The Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care.

There was a newsletter released a day or so ago. On page 4 we read.

e-health update

Ensuring clinical safety remains a key objective for the operation of the Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record (PCEHR) system.

The Commission, working with NeHTA, has established an independent clinical governance group which aims to provide assurance to health care consumers, providers and the system operator that the PCEHR is a safe and efficient system.

Additionally, the Commission will establish a clinical safety audit program under the guidance of clinical governance group.

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I wonder who is on the group or is this another sop to political correctness. Look forward to some clarity on all this.

This seems to be a link:

http://www.safetyandquality.gov.au/publications-resources/newsletters/update-newsletter/

Here are the contact details:

Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care

Website www.safetyandquality.gov.au

Email mail@safetyandquality.gov.au

Tel (02) 9126 3600 Fax (02) 9126 3613

Level 7, 1 Oxford Street,

Darlinghurst NSW 2010

GPO Box 5480 Sydney NSW 2001

Can I suggest that if you have a view on having a Board for the Commission (and group) with no apparent specialist e-Health expertise undertaking this role you may want to e-mail them or give them a call to encourage a better job than we have seen from NEHTA (with all the secret and useless documents) to date.

I wonder will we see some more useful stuff from these people? We wait and watch.

Here is the link to what the web site says about e-health safety. Not much to re-assure I can see:

http://www.safetyandquality.gov.au/our-work/safety-in-e-health/
 

David.