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Australian digital health
In partnership with the Australian Digital Health Agency the College is developing a suite of tools and resources for Fellows. This work supports Australia's National Digital Health Strategy focused on digital innovation, education and workforce, enhanced models of care interoperability, data quality, medicines safety, My Health Record and secure messaging.
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Specialist toolkit resources (coming November 2020)
The toolkit will empower specialists to adopt digital health tools and resources including My Health Record. The initial release is being developed for surgeons in late 2020. The development is being supported KPMG and Fellows interested in the development can contact Damien MacMunn for more details via email at dmacmunn@kpmg.com.au or call 07 3434 9143.
Telehealth e-prescribing webinar
Want to learn more about telehealth? This webinar recorded in June 2020 considers telehealth and electronic prescribing, risk and practical examples of telehealth in practice.
Moderated by Professor Mark Frydenberg, Chair of the Sustainability in Healthcare Working Group. Professor Mark Frydenberg highlights the working group’s research proposal to understand the patients’ telehealth experience within surgical practice.
My Health Record
My Health Record is a secure online summary of a patient’s health information and is available to all Australians. Healthcare providers authorised by their healthcare organisation can access My Health Record to view and add patient health information.
- Introduction to the My Health Record (coming July 2020)
- My Health Record registration overview
- My Health Record Security Access Policy templates. RACS is currently developing a draft policy to support Fellows implementing the My Health Record in their practice. In the interim some templates that may serve as a useful guide include:
Australian Association of Practice Management
Pharmaceutical Society of Australia - My Health Record website.