Concept of Operations: Relating to the introduction of a Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record System
4.3.8 Medicare information
There is an opportunity to leverage the information collected by the Department of Human Services Medicare program. Whilst this information lacks the clinical richness of other information sources, such as discharge summaries, with consent, the Department of Human Services is able to provide a longitudinal source of information about an individual’s healthcare events, including:- Information about healthcare events funded under the Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS). This information includes:
- Date of service
- Provider
- Service in hospital indicator
- Item number
- Brief Item description
- Information about packets of medicines dispensed under the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS). This information includes:
- Date of supply
- Date of Prescribing
- Item Code
- Brand
- Brief item description
- Quantity
- Number of repeats
- Information about vaccinations given to children under the age of 7 via the Australian Childhood Immunisation Register (ACIR). This information includes:
- Date vaccination received
- Vaccine type and provider
- Vaccine dose number
- Natural Immunity
- Information provider
- Medical contraindications
- Donation decisions recorded with the Australian Organ Donor Register (AODR). This information includes:
- Date of initial registration
- Donor end date
- Donor nominations
- For each nomination that exists:
- Donor’s consent
- Donor’s intent
- Donor nomination
Financial information associated within Medicare supplied information is not accessible by the PCEHR System.
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