High-quality health records to support patient care

On-demand recorded 11 Mar 2019

High-quality health records are critical to the provision of safe, effective and personalised patient care. They facilitate good communication with other healthcare providers, and are linked to practice accreditation and incentive programs. Despite this, maintaining health records is not always considered a priority for busy general practices.

In this webinar, GP Dr Steven Kaye reviews the features of high-quality health records, and discusses the importance of coding essential clinical data. Strategies for the effective use of GP clinical information systems are also detailed.

This event is part of Practice essentials webinar series. Events in this series are:

• Phone and video consultations: a how-to presentation
• Using personal mobile devices for clinical photos in general practice
• My Health Record – an update webinar
• Social media and the use of apps in general practice
• Secondary use of general practice data
• Telehealth video consultations in general practice
• Privacy and managing health information in general practice
• Technology in general practice
• Information security in general practice
• Improving health record quality in general practice
• SafeScript - Real time prescription monitoring for controlled drugs
• Medico-legal concerns and My Health Record
• Notifiable data breaches scheme
• High-quality health records to support patient care
• Introduction to electronic prescribing
• Phone and video consultations: a how-to presentation

Steven has been an RACGP Expert Committee member in eHealth / Practice Technology & Management since 2016. He has previously been the Deputy Chair of the Bayside Medicare Local and chair of the Bayside GP Network. Steven is a GP Registrar Supervisor for Eastern Victoria GP Training, an examiner for the RACGP fellowship and the Managing Partner of his General Practice in South East Melbourne. He has worked on many projects in an advisory role, including the ‘Shaping a Healthy Australia’ Working Group, My Health Record education program and the My Health Record External Assurance Committee.