Background The Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care (the Commission) has undertaken a clinical safety program for the My Health Record system since the system’s implementation in 2012. In July 2015, the Australian Government Department of Health appointed the Commission to conduct the seventh clinical safety review of the system, with the oversight of the Commission’s Clinical Safety Oversight Committee (CSOC). The aim of the Commission’s clinical safety reviews is to proactively identify potential clinical safety risks to, and arising from, the My Health Record system and to recommend suggested mitigation strategies. This will improve the overall safety and quality of the system over time. Copies of the Commission’s completed clinical safety reviews and the System Operator status reports against review recommendations to date are available on the Commission website at The seventh clinical safety review of the My Health Record system, conducted by the Commission, comprises: review 7.1 assessing the impact and safety of the use of the My Health Record system – in emergency departments (the hospital emergency department review) review 7.2 assessing the presentation to healthcare providers of the My Health Record – system views’ (the medications view review) ‘medications review 7.3 assessing downtime management best practices for clinical safety in health – IT systems (the downtime management review). This report presents the findings of clinical safety review 7.2. This review component assessed the medication information displayed by the My Health Record system through the National Prescription and Dispense View (NPDV), with a focus on the presentation of the information from a clinical safety perspective.
Background The Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care (the Commission) has undertaken a clinical safety program for the My Health Record system since the system’s implementation in 2012. In July 2015, the Australian Government Department of Health appointed the Commission to conduct the seventh clinical safety review of the system, with the oversight of the Commission’s Clinical Safety Oversight Committee (CSOC). The aim of the Commission’s clinical safety reviews is to proactively identify potential clinical safety risks to, and arising from, the My Health Record system and to recommend suggested mitigation strategies. This will improve the overall safety and quality of the system over time. Copies of the Commission’s completed clinical safety reviews and the System Operator status reports against review recommendations to date are available on the Commission website at The seventh clinical safety review of the My Health Record system, conducted by the Commission, comprises: review 7.1 – assessing the impact and safety of the use of the My Health Record system in emergency departments (the hospital emergency department review) review 7.2 – assessing the presentation to healthcare providers of the My Health Record system ‘medications views’ (the medications view review) review 7.3 – assessing downtime management best practices for clinical safety in health IT systems (the downtime management review). This report presents the findings of clinical safety review 7.2. This review component assessed the medication information displayed by the My Health Record system through the National Prescription and Dispense View (NPDV), with a focus on the presentation of the information from a clinical safety perspective.
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