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Victoria
| Project Name: AllTalk |
| State: Victoria |
| GPNs/Organisations Involved: Otway |
| Categorisation: Secure messaging |
| Brief Description: Rolling out secure messaging between specialists and GPs. |
| Primary Contact/Website: Robert Moore (Otway Division) rmoore@otway.asn.au |
| Geographical Region Covered: South Western Victoria |
| Provider Coverage: GPs, specialists |
| Expected/Delivered benefits to stakeholders: Secure messaging and eReferral between GPs and specialists. |
| Funding source & Status: Divisions |
| Any further comments: The Alltalk server has been configured to send/receive ArgusConnect messages, which should address compatibility between GPs, SWARH and Ballarat specialists. |
| Project Name: Argus rollout |
| State: Victoria |
| GPNs/Organisations Involved: All Vic divisions except for 3 |
| Categorisation: Secure messaging |
| Brief Description: Installation and other types of support for Argus (usually via their "Buddy" program). |
| Primary Contact/Website: Ross Davey, 5335 2220 |
| Geographical Region Covered: Victoria |
| Provider Coverage: GPs, specialists, some allied health, some hospitals |
| Expected/Delivered benefits to stakeholders: Improved communication between providers. |
| Funding source & Status: Subscriptions |
| Any further comments: |
| Project Name: CDM.Net |
| State: Victoria |
| GPNs/Organisations Involved: GP Association of Geelong, Precedence Healthcare, CSIRO, DoH, DCITA |
| Categorisation: CDM |
| Brief Description: Web-based application for managing care plans. Auto-populates data from clinical softwares. Facilitates team-based care (GP at centre, other clinicians can login and contribute) |
| Primary Contact/Website: Dr Michael Georgeff (www.precedencehealthcare.com) |
| Geographical Region Covered: Geelong |
| Provider Coverage: GPs, Allied Health, specialists (Geelong region) |
| Expected/Delivered benefits to stakeholders: Improved use of care plans thereby leading to better health outdomes for people with chronic disease. Improved uptake of Medicare Benefits Schedule |
| Funding source & Status: Clever Networks, Vic state govt, CSIRO, provider fees. |
| Any further comments: |
| Project Name: CHOICE |
| State: Victoria |
| GPNs/Organisations Involved: Central Highlands General Practice Network |
| Categorisation: CDM |
| Brief Description: Practices automatically submit de-identified patient data to a population health database. Reports are then sent back to practices in relation to patients such as patients taking contraindicating medications, patients due tests, patients with risk factors for disease . Reports can be re-identified at the practice to enable patients to be identified. |
| Primary Contact/Website: Catherine Fereirra (CHGPN) catherine.ferreira@chgpn.com.au |
| Geographical Region Covered: CHGPN - no limitation on expansion to other divisions |
| Provider Coverage: GPs - 2 Practices currently in initial trials |
| Expected/Delivered benefits to stakeholders: Reports can be sent back to practices in relation to patients such as patients taking contraindicating medications, patients due tests, patients with risk factors for disease . Reports can be re-identified at the practice to enable patients to be identified. |
| Funding source & Status: DoHA, CHGPN |
| Any further comments: CHOICE application developed by Pen CS draws upon around 1400 DOCLE codes for a more expansive population health, incidence and prevalence , and targeted desease monitoring activities. Data stored in Ferret database. |
| Project Name: CNS rollout |
| State: Victoria |
| GPNs/Organisations Involved: PivotWest |
| Categorisation: Secure messaging |
| Brief Description: Secure messaging |
| Primary Contact/Website: http://www.mednet.com.au/divisionreport/ |
| Geographical Region Covered: West Melbourne |
| Provider Coverage: GPs, specialists |
| Expected/Delivered benefits to stakeholders: Improved communication between providers. |
| Funding source & Status: Unknown |
| Any further comments: Not recommended. |
| Project Name: ConnectingCare |
| State: Victoria |
| GPNs/Organisations Involved: Ostensibly statewide, but particularly supported by Northern & Central Highlands divs, ConnectingCare, DoH |
| Categorisation: Continuity of care (referrals, discharge & event notification) |
| Brief Description: Web-based referral application. |
| Primary Contact/Website: Fulvia Constantinou, fulvia@connectingcare.com |
| Geographical Region Covered: Victoria |
| Provider Coverage: GPs, community health services, acute hospitals |
| Expected/Delivered benefits to stakeholders: Streamlined pathway for eReferral. |
| Funding source & Status: Originally via "Networking the Nation". Also from DoH directly, and HARP. |
| Any further comments: Not popular with GPs because it requires double-entry of data, though Northern division have developed a "macro" that reduces the number of clicks. ConnectingCare have developed an interface with the system of one of the rural hospitals - it integrates directly with their PAS. |
| Project Name: eDischarge Summary |
| State: Victoria |
| GPNs/Organisations Involved: Peninsula div, Peninsula Health |
| Categorisation: Continuity of care (referrals, discharge & event notification) |
| Brief Description: Hospital driven project to implement an eDischarge Summary for the region. The secure transmission of the eDS is enabled by HealthLink |
| Primary Contact/Website: Lynn Cooper, Peninsula Division, 9708 8019 |
| Geographical Region Covered: Peninsula |
| Provider Coverage: GPs |
| Expected/Delivered benefits to stakeholders: Improved transfer of care from hospital to local GP. |
| Funding source & Status: Unknown |
| Any further comments: |
| Project Name: eDischarge Summary |
| State: Victoria |
| GPNs/Organisations Involved: Eastern Health, DoH, HealthLink, Cerner |
| Categorisation: Continuity of care (referrals, discharge & event notification) |
| Brief Description: The first release of the HealthSMART eDischarge Summary (to be rolled out to other hospitals next year). Cerner Clinicals creates the DS and it is sent using HealthLink. |
| Primary Contact/Website: www.health.vic.gov.au/healthsmart/ |
| Geographical Region Covered: Eastern Melbourne |
| Provider Coverage: State hospitals, GPs, specialists, allied health |
| Expected/Delivered benefits to stakeholders: Improved transfer of care from hospital to GP (or other type of provider). Improved summary of care provided (via the Clinicals system) |
| Funding source & Status: DoH |
| Any further comments: HealthLink was chosen because it has the largest number of GP users (due to the number of pathology companies using HealthLink to deliver results). |
| Project Name: HealthSMART |
| State: Victoria |
| GPNs/Organisations Involved: Dept of Health (DoH) |
| Categorisation: Electronic Health Records |
| Brief Description: Statewide hospital ICT technology refresh |
| Primary Contact/Website: http://www.health.vic.gov.au/healthsmart |
| Geographical Region Covered: Victoria |
| Provider Coverage: Victorian Public Hospitals |
| Expected/Delivered benefits to stakeholders: eDischarge and state health agency connectivity and interoperability |
| Funding source & Status: Victorian Government, COAG, AHCA |
| Any further comments: |
| Project Name: Human Services Directory |
| State: Victoria |
| GPNs/Organisations Involved: All divisions, DoH, DCA |
| Categorisation: Health Provider Directories |
| Brief Description: Provider directory for multiple purposes: to list services, a "master" source for provider details, a directory for secure messaging. |
| Primary Contact/Website: Max Walker, DoH, |
| Geographical Region Covered: |
| Provider Coverage: |
| Expected/Delivered benefits to stakeholders: |
| Funding source & Status: |
| Any further comments: |
| Project Name: Pen CS Clinical Audit Tool |
| State: Victoria |
| GPNs/Organisations Involved: All divisions |
| Categorisation: Data Quality Improvement |
| Brief Description: Rollout of CAT in all Victorian divisions |
| Primary Contact/Website: Ross Nable r.nable@gpv.org.au |
| Geographical Region Covered: Victoria |
| Provider Coverage: GPs, Community Health |
| Expected/Delivered benefits to stakeholders: Visibility of practice population for data quality improvement, improved practice viability and systematic care planning |
| Funding source & Status: Divisions |
| Any further comments: |
| Project Name: Practice Health Atlas |
| State: Victoria |
| GPNs/Organisations Involved: 22 divisions |
| Categorisation: Data Quality Improvement |
| Brief Description: Uptake of PHA training by 22 Divisions |
| Primary Contact/Website: Paul Macdonald p.macdonald@gpv.org.au |
| Geographical Region Covered: 22 Divisions |
| Provider Coverage: GPs, Community Health, ACCHOs |
| Expected/Delivered benefits to stakeholders: Visibility of practice population for data quality improvement, improved practice viability and systematic care planning inc. ACCHO |
| Funding source & Status: Divisions |
| Any further comments: |
| Project Name: ReferralNet rollout |
| State: Victoria |
| GPNs/Organisations Involved: GP Association of Geelong (GPAG), Global Health, Otway Division, Specialists |
| Categorisation: Secure messaging |
| Brief Description: GPAG engaging specialists and installing ReferralNet clients in specialist rooms, driving the uptake of ReferralNet by GPs as a result of having someone to send to. Geelong have communicated the names of ReferralNet enabled specialists to Otway Division who can now instal client in practices who refer to those specialists. |
| Primary Contact/Website: Jason Trethowan (CEO, GPAG) Jason@gpageelong.com.au |
| Geographical Region Covered: Geelong |
| Provider Coverage: GPs, Allied Heath, Specialists, Community Health |
| Expected/Delivered benefits to stakeholders: Connectivity with specialists and change and adoption for eHealth work flows |
| Funding source & Status: Divisions |
| Any further comments: |
| Project Name: Rural ICT Alliances |
| State: Victoria |
| GPNs/Organisations Involved: Rural divisions , Vic Dept of Health, Rural ICT Alliances |
| Categorisation: Infrastructure, security & access (VOIP, VPN etd) |
| Brief Description: Region-wide use of VPN. Otway division utilising SWARH VPN to provide GPs access to clinics on same grounds as hospitals inside SWARH |
| Primary Contact/Website: Robert Moore (Otway Division) rmoore@otway.asn.au |
| Geographical Region Covered: Rural Victoria |
| Provider Coverage: GPs, Allied Heath, Specialists, Community Health |
| Expected/Delivered benefits to stakeholders: Data transfer and visibility between GPs and hospitals. Working towards a complete secure regional solution. |
| Funding source & Status: Victorian Government |
| Any further comments: MD, printing and SWAH firewall issues. Overcoming in some cases using Log-me-in |
| Project Name: S2S |
| State: Victoria |
| GPNs/Organisations Involved: Eastern divisions, DoH, InfoXchange |
| Categorisation: Continuity of care (referrals, discharge & event notification) |
| Brief Description: Web-based referral application. |
| Primary Contact/Website: Amodha Ratnayeke, amodha@infoxchange.net.au |
| Geographical Region Covered: Eastern Victoria |
| Provider Coverage: GPs, community health services, acute hospitals |
| Expected/Delivered benefits to stakeholders: Streamlined pathway for eReferral. |
| Funding source & Status: DoH |
| Any further comments: Similar to ConnectingCare, not popular with GPs because of double-handling. However, they are working on an integrating with Argus (see below). |
| Project Name: S2S integration |
| State: Victoria |
| GPNs/Organisations Involved: Melbourne East, East Gipplsand, DoH, InfoXchange |
| Categorisation: Continuity of care (referrals, discharge & event notification) |
| Brief Description: Project to provide integration between Argus and S2S. This is to redress the problems caused by S2S requiring double-handling. |
| Primary Contact/Website: Amodha Ratnayeke, amodha@infoxchange.net.au |
| Geographical Region Covered: Eastern Victoria |
| Provider Coverage: GPs, acute hospitals |
| Expected/Delivered benefits to stakeholders: Streamlined pathway for eReferral. |
| Funding source & Status: DoH |
| Any further comments: The Argus integration hasn't been smooth (due to a number of issues, not necessarily at the Argus end). The project scoping should |
| Project Name: Secure SMS |
| State: Victoria |
| GPNs/Organisations Involved: impetus |
| Categorisation: Secure messaging |
| Brief Description: Using secure SMS for recall/reminder |
| Primary Contact/Website: Karen Hoffmann (impetus) khoffmann@impetus.org.au |
| Geographical Region Covered: Impetus Division |
| Provider Coverage: |
| Expected/Delivered benefits to stakeholders: |
| Funding source & Status: |
| Any further comments: |
| Project Name: Victoria Statewide Referral Form |
| State: Victoria |
| GPNs/Organisations Involved: DoH, All divisions, public health agencies |
| Categorisation: Continuity of care (referrals, discharge & event notification) |
| Brief Description: State initiated project to develop a referral template suitable for acceptance by all state health providers. Falls under the banner of the Service Coordination Tool Templates (SCTT). |
| Primary Contact/Website: |
| Geographical Region Covered: Victoria |
| Provider Coverage: GPs, state health providers |
| Expected/Delivered benefits to stakeholders: Improved quality of referral, thereby saving time and improved quality of care. |
| Funding source & Status: DoH |
| Any further comments: |
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