The eHealth component of Practice Incentive Program was tightened on 1 May 2016. Practices are now required to upload Shared Health Summaries (SHS) for 0.5% of the Standard Whole Patient Equivalent (SWPE) population each quarter to qualify for the Incentive. Quarters commence on the first of February, May, August and November. The incentive for a practice can be up to $12,500 per quarter.
The North Coast Primary Health Network has developed a guide to assisting practices in meeting their ePIP requirements. Section 4.6 of the guide shows how to determine the number of uploads in the preceding 3 months for three of the commonly used general practice electronic health records, Genie, Medical Director and Best Practice.
Uploads to the PCEHR
Medical Director has a specific tool to calculate the number of uploads for the quarter. For Genie users the guide runs through the process for extracting the details of uploaded Shared Health Summaries.
Best Practice has a query function to run Structured Query Language (SQL) queries directly against the database. Control-S brings up the Search box and the following query can be pasted in and run.
select * from bps_patients p
inner join pcehrdocuments d on d.internalid = p.internalid
where statustext = 'active'
and d.recordstatus = 1 and documenttype = 1
and d.documentdate >= dateadd(month, -3, getdate())
order by usualdoctor, surname, firstname
Patient are listed by usual doctor and then surname.
The government hopes to increase the number of clinically useful entries in the My Health Record (formerly known as the Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record) system.
This is particularly important for those patients with chronic and complex diseases, who frequently attend hospital Accident and Emergency with potentially life threatening episodes.
