Grahame Grieve Provides Some Perspective On Secure Messaging And Axing The Fax.

This appeared a day or so ago and is published here with permission.Future of Secure Messaging in Australia Posted on June 19, 2019 by Grahame Grieve The Australian Digital Health Agency is working hard on a secure messaging project. This is a project to build out a working eco-system so that any clinician can send documents and messages to any other clinician in a secure fashion.There ’s multiple uses of the this kind of messaging:Sending Diagnostic Reports to the requesting physician, along with anyone else the physician asked to be notifiedSending Discharge Summaries Referrals from GP to specialist, and letters back to SpecialistsSubmission of forms to hospitals (usually a form of referral)Requests for further information from other cliniciansSome of these are well in production and have been for many years. Yet clinicians still report being overwhelmed by paper from their faxes, and that ’s generated an “Axe the Fax” campaign (that... This is the initial part of the post - read more by clicking on the title of the article. David.
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