It was the first western Sydney surgery to connect to the national Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record (PCEHR) system with the first successful upload of a shared health summary.
Patients who register for an e-health record will have their medical records and details about allergies, adverse reactions, immunisations and medications in the one spot.
Shared health summaries can be assessed by other health providers but patients can consent to who has access to personal information.
The information can be accessed anywhere in Australia.
Principal GP Dr Kean Seng Lim jumped at the chance to be involved when the federal government chose western Sydney as one of 12 lead sites for the e-health project in April 2011.
It's the 24th site across Australia to go live on the PCEHR system
Dr Lim has received a positive response from patients since going live a fortnight ago.
"They're asking why it hasn't happened until now," he said. "It has a lot of value for everyone, not just the health providers. It's good for the future of health care.
"It will help save lives, save money in the health system and make it more efficient. It has enormous potential to improve the quality of care for every patient."
Dr Lim believes concerns about the system's security and privacy have been addressed during the past 18 months.
"System security is second to none," he said.
"Every time the system is logged into, patients will know who and what information has been accessed, and can register to receive an SMS or email each time their records have been accessed."
Western Sydney Medicare Local PCEHR deployment project manager Maria Pipicella configured the software at the surgery to connect to the system.
Her goal is to have 50 practices connected to the system by April, but it will depend on their clinical systems being compliant with PCEHR technology.
Details: 1800 723 471, pick up a form from Medicare or go to ehealth.gov.au.
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Autor(en)/Author(s): Kylie Stevens
Quelle/Source: St Marys-Mt Druitt Star, 17.12.2012
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