Seminar on secure messaging for allied health and specialists
The Victorian branch of the Australian Association of Practice Management (AAPM) is organising a seminar next month for specialist and allied health practices on using secure messaging services to connect with GPs.
The seminar will be held in Melbourne and broadcast live by video link to sites in Geelong, Warrnambool, Ballarat and Gippsland.
AAPM Victoria state president Brett McPherson said the aim of the seminar was to provide all potential users with practical information on how secure message delivery (SMD) can be set up in a practice and be used for better patient and business outcomes.
Mr McPherson said it would help practices gain an understanding of secure messaging and why it is important, how secure messaging works and how it provides the foundation for further eHealth initiatives.
Presenters will include representatives from the National E-Health Transition Authority (NEHTA), secure messaging service provider Argus (HealthConnex), AAPM and practices using SMD.
Expert representatives will then take part in a panel discussion and a Q&A session. Delegates attending the regional sites will also be able to participate.
The main session will be hosted from the Telstra building on Exhibition St in Melbourne, with other sites including Berwick, Ballarat and Traralgon.
The event will be held from 1pm to 4pm on Friday, February 27. See www.aapm.org.au/Education-Events/Events-Calendar for more information.
Posted in Australian eHealth
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Also agree with the initial set-up in address books; having said that though once it's done it's done - as opposed to having to scan a letter every time received from a "NON-SMD" provider.
Locations for venues are available via the AAPM link at the bottom of Kate's story.
Thanks Brett. There is reference to a Geelong videolink site in the article, but the "flyer" does not mention a Geelong location. So just trying to clarify if I will be able to attend this event in Geelong? Shirley
I won't be exhorting any specialists or Allied Health professionals to subscribe to an SMD supplier because a) some of them already subscribe, but to a different product; b) I couldn't determine whether it would be a good value proposition for them - even though it might improve communication betwenn them and us, it might only give them access to a small subset of the general practices that they work with; c) the address book issue which you dismiss as a one-time setup is in fact an ongoing maintenance requirement - practices subscribe and unsubscribe, change email addresses etc, and these changes have to be maintained manually.
Let me ask "How many people would carry a mobile phone, if Optus mobiles could only call other Optus subscribers, and likewise for Vodaphone, Telstra etc? Or if iPhones could call other iPhones, but not Nokia, or Samsung or LG? Not many. So why is it that half-way through the second decade of the 21st century, after the expenditure of a lot of money, and after many years of broken promises, medical practices cannot all communicate with each other electronically? Perhaps in the long run it would be more productive if we all boycotted the products completelly until there exists a workable and complete sttandard and a set of compliant products that wil send and receive communications seamlessly .