Written by Kate McDonald on
09 February 2021.
Telstra Health has upgraded its community health and primary care services platform Communicare to help enable the tracking and tracing of patients receiving COVID-19 vaccinations.
Consumers using the Telstra Health’s HealthNow app can also get access to their immunisation status through their mobile device if they have enabled access to their My Health Record on the app.
The latest versions of Communicare are also compliant with the new active ingredient prescribing rules that became mandatory on February 1. Version 19.2 of Communicare now enables PBS and Repatriation PBS (RPBS) prescriptions to include active ingredients.
The COVID-19 upgrade will extend Communicate’s immunisation functionality to enable healthcare providers to capture vaccine serial numbers.
My Home Hospital remote care service now live for Adelaide patients Written by Kate McDonald on
09 February 2021.
South Australia s My Home Hospital service is now live and open to eligible patients in metropolitan Adelaide, offering remote care and hospital in the home services for conditions such as kidney or respiratory infections, cellulitis or deep vein thrombosis.
My Home Hospital is being delivered in a joint venture between Calvary Health Care and Medibank, with Telstra Health supplying its virtual health monitoring solution to enable My Home Hospital to monitor the health and wellbeing of patients remotely and in real time.
Telstra Health releases major upgrade to electronic medical record Written by Kate McDonald on
19 January 2021.
Telstra Health has launched an upgraded version of its electronic medical record (EMR) at Northern Beaches Hospital in Sydney and St John of God Midland Hospital in Perth, with plans to launch to its entire client base this year.
Telstra Health says the upgrade has a number of key functionality improvements including new multi-tasking capabilities to enable staff to write progress notes documentation from anywhere in the EMR while viewing information from other modules. It also works natively on mobile devices.
Telstra Health has developed a portal for the National Cancer Screening Register (NCSR) that is being integrated with clinical software systems Best Practice and MedicalDirector to allow healthcare professionals to access their patients’ bowel
Written by Kate McDonald on
17 December 2020.
In September, the federal government announced a new $2 billion COVID-19 health measures package that extended the temporary MBS item numbers for telehealth for a further six months. It also included an extension to the subsidised home delivery of medicines measure, as well as continued free access to the Healthdirect video conferencing system for GPs and SMS messages for electronic prescriptions.
The special arrangement for image-based prescriptions was also extended, as was the end-date for software with fast-tracked (FT) eScript capability. Towards the end of the year, vendors such as MMEx began rolling out ffully conformant versions, and by December, Health Minister Greg Hunt was announcing that item numbers for telehealth would be kept permanently.