Useful Links

• Getting your Practice ready.  What are the steps?
• Register your Practice
• National Health Services Directory
• RACGP Practice Standards
• Analysis of PCEHR Consumer Adoption up to 12 June 2013
• Organisations Registered in the PCEHR System up to 12 June 2013

Resources

• Clinician Essentials Checklist
• Form to update practitioner details on the HPD
• Form to update practitioner details on the NHSD

About HPOS

• To log into HPOS click here  You will need your USB/PKI certificate and pass code.
• What can you do with an Individual PKI certificate?
• What can you do with a PKI site certificate?
• What can you do with a HI PKI?
• Click here to access Medicare’s User Guides, including HPOS user guides
• HPOS & eHealth

For problems with HPI-Os, HPI-Is, RA numbers, RO or OMO quesries, please contact HI services via;

• Call 1300 361 457.
• Email healthcareidentifiers@humanservices.gov.au

For more information about what HI services are, click here.

Problems

• Can’t add your GP/Nurse to the HPI-O on HPOS? click here
• How do I electronically access HI Services?
• Something wrong with one of the discs containing your certificates?

ePIP

• Click here for the AMA’s ePIP checklists
• What is ePIP by NeHTA
• NeHTA PIP website
• Click here to access the product registers relevant to the ePIP requirements
• Click here to access NACCHO’s ePIP administrative guide
• Click here for information about the Argus commissioning process

About Argus commissioning

Argus Commissioning Guide for Aboriginal Medical Services
If you have any queries pertaining to the information in the two documents below, please contact either Tania Oldaker at DCA on 03 5335 2220 ext: 914 or Dan Kyr at AHCSA on 08 8273 7200

1. Commissioning with Argus for Aboriginal Health Councils
2. HPOS_Manage_Organisation_ELS_Publish_dv001 

N.B document 2 is the “attachment with screenshots” referred to in document 1 above.

A collection of checklists and guides around Argus commissioning.

• IEMML- 20130710_ppt_SMDCommissioningWebinar – Copy
• IEMML- ePIP SMD Commissioning Guide v1.1 – Copy
• HI Service – QRG – Publish ELS details via HPOS – Copy
• NeHTA- SMD_Commissioning_Requirements_Checklist_v1.00_15022013

How to conduct Assited Registration

• AHCSA quick start guide: Part 1, Before you start using the Assited Registration Tool
• AHCSA Quick Start Guide: Part 2, Register people using the Assisted Registration Tool
• AHCSA Quick Start Guide: Part 3 PCEHR access

If you need to update your patients’ Medicare details fill out this form Appendix B- Indigenous Medicare appllication form

PCEHR administration for health service managers

• Click Here for AHCSA’s E-Health Checklist for SA ACCHSs: step by step summary of the different stages in getting your site live on the PCEHR
• Click here for the NACCHO administrative guide for Communicare
• Click here for NeHTA advice regarding the Healthcare Identifiers service
• Click here for eHealth administrative FAQs from NACCHO
• Click here for a glossary of eHealth terminology fro NACCHO
• Click here for NACCHO’s administrative guide to HPOS
• Click here for NACCHO’s introduction  to the PCEHR

Policy and Procedure templates

Assisted Registration Policy templates

• AHCSA assisted registration policy template
• AHCSA assisted registration policy Appendix 1authorised employee register
• AHCSA assisted registration policy Appendix 2 authorised training declaration

ePIP & PCEHR related policy templates

• Central Adelaide and Hills Medicare Local policy templates for the ePIP
• NACCHO PCEHR policy template
• NACCHO eTP policy tempate
• NACCHO SMS policy template
• NACCHO clinical coding policy template
• RACGP ePIP policy template

Policy and Procedure templates

These are templates based on one of AHCSA’s  member services’s IT & IM policies. Please consider how best you may utilise these to improve your own IT & IM policies and procedures. Please note that these templates are a guide only-if your own practices differ significantly from what the templates outline, you will need to amend the template accordingly.

• Doctors’ use of encounter place and mode
• PCEHR assisted registration policy
• User groups, system viewing and access rights
• Communicare transmission of patient information
• Communicare system and user audits
• Communicare staff training and follow up support
• Communicare release of client information
• Quality improvement practice-clinical
• Communicare patient status definitions
• Address, locality and locality group
• Pathology labels
• Communicare password management
• Paper based clinical files
• Medication prescribing
• Medication dispensing

• Medicare online claiming
• Maintenance of Medicare numbers
• Maintenance of HRNs
• IT disaster management policy
• Communicare help desk
• Encounter place and record storage location
• Documentation guidelines for progress notes
• Documentation of immunisation encounters
• Electronic progress notes privacy and security
• Communicare document scanning
• Communicare document management
• Clinical item development
• Communicare biographic information
• Duplicate records management

SA Health eHealth Policies

• Directive Discharge Summary to PCEHR June 2013 3 0
• ICT_Standards_PCEHR_Security_and_Access_Policy

Please note: These documents were kindly shared with us by SA Health, and are current as at the date of the post only. For any changes to these, you should contact SA Health or look at their website.