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e-Referrals

e-Referrals facilitate the seamless exchange of significant patient information from one treating healthcare provider to another.

Benefits

The referral package is designed to provide safety and quality benefits, each intended to scale with adoption rates. These are achieved through improved:

• accuracy of demographic information via healthcare identifiers, promoting the rapid identification of patients, providers and services, minimising duplicate records and accelerating decisive information exchanges
• accuracy of clinical information via secure and structured communications between referrers (general practitioners) and referees (specialists), promoting safety, error reduction and reduced duplication of clinical and administrative effort
• cost-efficiencies via increasing interoperability of practices and systems, with a corresponding decrease in miscommunication and associated risks
• coordination of services and treatments, from diagnosis to interventions, leading to increasingly-integrated care potentials, nationwide.

The e-Referrals Program

The NEHTA Electronic Referral Program has been tasked to develop key specifications required for software vendors, GPs and specialists to establish a national environment for standardised electronic referral exchange, one where referrals can be sent securely and reliably to identified recipients, viewed by health care providers, and integrated into recipient clinical information systems.

Contact

For more information on the e-Referral program contact Sean Holmes, Program Manager - This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it