Healthcare Supply Chain and Patient Safety

Australian Health Jurisdictions working together to improve Healthcare Supply Chain and Patient Safety;
Adoption of the National Product Catalogue and eProcurement

This statement is a commitment by the Federal, State and Territory Health Departments in Australia to the collaborative development and adoption of national e-health standards in healthcare supply chain with the goal of improving patient safety and the quality of healthcare delivery for all Australians. This commitment includes working towards effective adoption and utilisation of the National Product Catalogue and the NEHTA eProcurement Solution.

National Product Catalogue

  1. Health jurisdictions are developing processes for utilising data provided by suppliers via the National Product Catalogue (NPC).
  2. Jurisdictions are undertaking a number of initiatives to encourage suppliers to load, validate and publish their data to the NPC, effectively becoming ‘NPC Ready’.
  3. A number of health jurisdictions have implemented automated solutions to receive data from the NPC, validate this data against existing records, and feed this into internal ERP systems and other relevant business solutions. Where automated solutions have not yet been put in place, health jurisdictions are manually accessing NPC data and pushing this to internal systems.
  4. This key piece of healthcare infrastructure will be a primary foundation to providing accurate and complete supply chain data, clinically relevant product information and price data to Australia’s public health system.

eProcurement

  1. The development and rollout of the National E-Health Transition Authority (NEHTA) eProcurement Solution has enabled several health jurisdictions to commence piloting and implementing this solution.
  2. The NEHTA eProcurement solution incorporates specifications for e-messages such as:
    • Purchase order
    • Purchase order response
    • Despatch advice
    • Invoice
  3. Those health jurisdictions involved in piloting the solution may initially test only selected messages to ensure the capabilities and infrastructure is in place between trading partners. Once the pilot is complete, they are progressing to implementing the full suite of messages between trading partners.
  4. The need for accurate and complete product and price data (ie suppliers being ‘NPC Ready’) is a key expectation and pre-requisite for implementation of eProcurement with health jurisdictions.

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Partners include:

  • NSW Health (Government of New South Wales);
  • ACT Health (Australian Capital Territory Government);
  • SA Health (Government of South Australia);
  • Department of Health (State Government of Victoria);
  • Department of Health (Government of Western Australia);
  • Queensland Health (Queensland Government);
  • Department of Health and Families (Northern Territory Government);
  • Department of Health and Human Services (Tasmania Government);
  • Department of Health and Aging (Commonwealth) and
  • the National E-Health Transition Authority (NEHTA).

 

NSW Health (Government of New South Wales) Queensland Health (Queensland Government)
ACT Health (Australian Capital Territory Government) Department of Health and Families (Northern Territory Government)
SA Health (Government of South Australia) Department of Health and Human Services (Tasmania Government)
Department of Health (State Government of Victoria) Department of Health and Aging (Commonwealth)
Department of Health (Government of Western Australia) National E-Health Transition Authority (NEHTA)