Grahame Grieve Has A Look At Where We Are With Secure Clinical Messaging.

This went up a day or so and it is reproduced with permission.Clinical Messaging in Australia Posted on March 28, 2019 by Grahame Grieve The Australian Digital Health Agency is working hard on replacing faxing with secure messaging. Peter MacIsaac discusses one of the ancillary challenges this causes in Pulse IT today: “The second barrier to successful cross-transfer of messages is that the messages sent by almost all health services do not comply with Australian messaging or vocabulary standards.Likewise the major clinical system vendors are not capable of processing a standard HL7 message, if one were to be de livered to them. Senders and receivers have each interpreted the international HL7 messaging standard independently of the agreed Australian standard and associated implementation guidelines.”I don’t think this quite expresses the problem – while there definitely are problems with non-conforma nce, there are also areas with the Australian standards are simply not detailed enough,... This is the initial part of the post - read more by clicking on the title of the article. David.
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