As regular readers will know I spent a much too exciting few days in the Royal North Shore Hospital earlier this week! I escaped a few days ago and yesterday decided to have a look at my My Health Record to see if anything had been uploaded as I result of my admission. To my surprise, and with no discussion with me, I found a very detailed 8 page Discharge Summary had been uploaded to the My Health Record by not the clinical team but a Hospital Pharmacist. What I don’t understand is, while the GP is meant to discuss what will be uploaded to a Shared Health Record with the patient there seems to be no such process for Discharge Summaries. I am not all that concerned that this happened but I suspect that at least 2 patients I shared a room with for a while (one of each had a potentially stigmatising family undisclosed illness and the other of which may have disclosed to their clinicians some potentially problematic past history – and yes I am being vague deliberately) may have...
This is the initial part of the post - read more by clicking on the title of the article. David.
from Australian Health Information Technology http://ift.tt/2bgC862
- TECHNOLOGY AND HEALTH
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