PCEHR


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 * Information Exchanges – for healthcare services and IT vendors. Workshop July 2011 **

IHE Australia invites Healthcare Services and Health IT vendors to attend a workshop series in Melbourne (July 2011) on linking with the proposed PCEHR and local Health Information Exchange (using IHE's international standard XDSb profile.) Link to detail = = =News=

Benefits and evaluation partner for PCEHR announced.

This site is devoted to supporting the development and uptake of the PCEHR.. Organisations are being asked to consider being lead implementation sites. IHE Australia has significant experience and resources that may be of assistance. This is not an "official" DoHA or NEHTA site.
 * Personally Controlled - EHR **

For comments or further information contact: eventsmanager@IHE.net.au 0418487081

[|Join the PCEHR information list] - a service provided by IHE to provide a channel for information about the program. http://ihe.net.au/mailman/listinfo/pcehr_ihe

DoHA and NEHTA have set somechallenging timelines for the healthcare industry around the PCEHR. IHE Australia is taking the following steps to support this initiative:
 * Establishment of a wiki to act as a clearing house of resources to support organisations who are considering becoming PCEHR sites and vendors who wish to be involved
 * Identification of qualified vendors who can apply IHE profiles to address local solutions
 * Consideration of partnering or providing professional assistance to potential consortia bids

IHE has developed a number of integration profiles which have been adopted internationally to provide services consistent with the Australian PCEHR vision. These profile components are called Cross Enterprise Document Share (IHE - XDS)

Click on the above diagram to review sites of XDS implementations:

**Useful links:**

Health Reform Agenda - Australia

IHE Profiles mentioned in PCEHR Concept of operations.

Animated description of PCEHR - concept of operation (as shown at DoHA EHR conference

NEHTA Draft Concept of Operation - []

[|DoHA eHealth conference (Nov30/Dec1 - Melb) presentations webcast]

IHE site grants info sheet - Number 1

List of Wave 2 Sites - link to DoHA Fact sheet

PCEHR solution vendors (compliant with IHE XDS profile)

Consultants

PCEHR - Early sites - where to from here ?



IHE PC EHR Showcase Scenarios

Link to US HIE information resources

Link to IHE XDS section of this wiki


 * Learning from Previous ERN Project Grant submission**

=Issues to consider when developing a bid proposal:=


 * **Consortia partners / collaboration**required to submit a bid, complete the planning and deliver the project in the required timeframes; what organisations are likely to be interested in this project that represent communities within the region ?
 * **Governance**- project and operational governance - roles, responsibilities, may need to consider MOU's, SLA's or other contractual arrangements between partnering organizations
 * **Project management**- skills and resources available to manage and support the project planning and delivery
 * **Scope of the project**- needs to be centered around health information exchange; make use of existing infrastructure, capabilities and resources (to underpin successful project delivery, manage risk and cost); consider applicability, practicality and use of tele-health if servicing remote communities, how will health information exchange support care delivery processes and patient flows (e.g. patient referral, care planning) ?
 * **Other Scope considerations**- focus on identifying a scope that is achievable in a 12-18 month timeframe and ensure that it will address the key NEHTA requirements (as referred to in the Grant proposal**Implementation approach**- consider an incremental approach, in particular to manage risk and to deliver the full scope of the project (especially if the scope is large and involves a high level of complexity and /or risk); adoption and roll-out considerations will need to be fully considered
 * **Business case**- implementation of the project must deliver tangible benefits to the stakeholders and be sustainable under the consortia governance arrangements
 * **Technical issues**- technical architecture, network and communications, integration, functional and technical capabilities of existing systems to support this project - how will the exsiting systems use or generate the health information exchange documents
 * **Standards to be adopted and supported**- NEHTA standards requirements with regard the PCEHR (note: the IHE XDS profile and CDA documents are recognised by NEHTA within this context); use of a regional identifier (such as the XDS regional ID) needs to cross -reference the NHI (national health identifier)
 * **Change Management**- consider workflow impacts, training requirements for key users
 * **Communication and marketing strategy** - need to secure and retain the interest and support of the key partners and stakeholders for the duration of the project (and beyond once fully operational) and ensure delivery meets stakeholder requirements and expectations