The Healthcare Identifiers Communications Plan aims to guide the implementation of the Healthcare Identifiers Service (HI) through education and marketing initiatives for consumers, healthcare providers, and healthcare organisations.
Operated by Medicare Australia, the HI Service aims to improve healthcare communication between individuals and medical providers.
It is a national system for uniquely identifying healthcare providers and individuals.
According to NEHTA, most Australians have been issued with an Individual Healthcare Identifier and implementation document will be used as the basis for stakeholder consultation to develop the detailed implementation plan.
It is the final of three rounds of consultation that have assisted with legislation development.
The document says there are challenges in the large scale adoption of healthcare identifiers and that healthcare providers may need to change some of their business practices in order to utilise the new service.
It includes three complementary approaches to implementation, including a change management program which involves support from professional peak bodies.
Other approaches include assistance to vendors, whereby medical software vendors will need to include specifications within their products to create seamless communication links between healthcare providers and the new service.
The document says identifying and establishing lead or “early adopter” sites that can demonstrate the use of the identifiers in supporting robust e-health implementations are also important.
“NEHTA will collaborate with key organisations that are prepared to invest early and assist in the development of, implementation guidelines, change management and ‘lessons learned’ tool kits that can support the Change Management Program,” the document says.
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Quelle/Source: PS News, 12.10.2010
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