Response 912273544

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1. What is your name?

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Lavanya Naidoo

3. Are you responding as an individual or on behalf of an organisation?

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On behalf of an organisation

5. Do you categorise yourself as a:

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Consumer / individual / patient
Family member or carer of a consumer
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Diagnostic imaging service delivery provider
Pathology services delivery provider
General practitioner
Specialist medical officer
Pharmacist
Nurse
Allied health practitioner
Other healthcare provider
First Nations / Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisation
Not for profit / community organisation
State or territory government health department / agency
Commonwealth Government department / agency
Clinical software vendor
Other industry / business
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Consumer/Registered Nurse/Clinical Informatics Specialist

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Diagnostic imaging services
Pathology services
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Better access – sharing pathology and diagnostic imaging reports to My Health Record by default

1. What do you think will be the impact of diagnostic imaging and pathology providers having to share reports to My Health Record by default? This includes the impact on:

Consumers and/or carers:
The impact could be information overload and potential fear mongering. The reason why i feel this is way is because , if results have not been discussed with a patient. . A patient may become distressed as unable to interrupt medical language. Furthermore clinicians may need additional support to keep up.
Healthcare providers:
Whlist this may give clinicians ease of access to information. The entire platform would be changed so that relevant reports are catergorised together for example - blood reports vs scan reports.
perhaps the terminology report might need rewording to a report library where the end user could filter the mentioned reports by date, time and provider/services.
The broader healthcare system:
This is great initiative to develop a current tool rather than reinventing the wheel. Perhaps the My Health Record needs further integration into notifying the patient's nominated GP when a report is available for interruption this would be helpful for Discharge Summaries and Diagnostic reports (Blood & Scan).

2. What does the government need to consider when developing requirements to share diagnostic imaging and pathology results to My Health Record? Particularly consider:

Information overload and fear.
Alerting the relevant nominated GP and ordering specialist of uploads in system.

3. Please share any advice or comments not covered by previous questions.

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Faster access – removing delays to accessing pathology and diagnostic imaging reports in My Health Record

1. What do you think would be the impact of consumers having immediate access to diagnostic imaging and pathology reports in their My Health Record? This includes the impact on:

Consumers and/or carers:
mentioned in previous comments
Healthcare providers:
mentioned in previous comments
The broader healthcare system:
mentioned in previous comments

2. What resources should consumers have access to when they view a result in My Health Record? This question is about how to support consumers in a model of care where they have near real time access to their pathology and diagnostic imaging results.

Perhaps access to services such as Health Direct to further direct angst.

3. What safety features could ensure follow-up clinical care happens promptly?

I believe an alert system to nominated PMS systems GP/Specialist.
Perhaps incentives for clinicians who do log in.

4. Please share any advice or comments not covered by previous questions.

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