Concept of Operations: Relating to the introduction of a Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record System

4.1 Introduction

The PCEHR System will collect information from a wide range of sources within a number of conformant repositories and be able to present that information in a range of ways to meet the needs of individuals, healthcare providers and other parties.

This section discusses the underlying information model of the PCEHR System (including record management issues such as data quality and retention). It also discusses the various information sources and ways of accessing that information via views, searching and reports.

Figure 7: Managing PCEHR information


Figure 7: Conceptual diagram showing how information could flow between PCEHR core services, repositories, information sources and information consumers. It also shows how the information in the PCEHR can be presented using a series of views and reports. The information sources include individuals, representatives, healthcare providers and Medicare. The information consumers include individuals, representatives, healthcare providers and reporting users.

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