A series of regular updates from Agency business units (such as national infrastructure, programs and other units) to external stakeholders in line with our Stakeholder Engagement Framework.
Please note times are AEDT
A series of regular updates from Agency business units (such as national infrastructure, programs, etc) to external stakeholders in line with our Stakeholder Engagement Framework.
Note times are AEDT
The Agency is very keen to understand and get feedback from the medical software industry on some key topics within the Guidelines.
Specialist Letter documents are used in replying to a referral or reporting on a health event and contain information related to the event or the requested diagnosis or treatment by a specialist.
Event Summary documents are used to capture key health information about significant healthcare events that are relevant to the ongoing care of an individual.
Referrals in the Australian context
Referrals are communications with the intention of initiating a transfer of responsibility for some aspects of a consumer’s ongoing management from one provider to another across a range of healthcare and human services fields.
The aim of a shared health summary is to provide key pieces of information about an individual’s health status, facilitating care across their entire healthcare domain.
Shared health summary in the Australian context
A discharge summary is defined as "A collection of information about events during care by a provider or organisation." [AS4700.6(Int)2007]. It comprises a document produced during a patient's stay in hospital.
Discharge summaries in the Australian context
Specialist Letter documents are used in replying to a referral or reporting on a health event and contain information related to the event or the requested diagnosis or treatment by a specialist.
Event Summary documents are used to capture key health information about significant healthcare events that are relevant to the ongoing care of an individual.
The Agency is very keen to understand and get feedback from the medical software industry on some key topics within the Guidelines.
