Australia's Update April 2009

National activities

The National Release Centre delivered significant new capabilities and process improvements in the past year, including:

• a new Namespace management process,

• improved licensing management,

• integration of our service management system with the NEHTA-wide issues management system, and

• a Terminology Newsletter.

NEHTA’s Australian Medicines Terminology development continued this year, and met its objective to include all items on the Australian Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme by October 2008. The team is now adding items from the Australian Register of Therapeutic Goods with the objective of reaching by June 2009 content of 99% of all Australian prescribable items. The future goal is to integrate the Australian Medicines Terminology into SNOMED CT as Australia’s national medicines extension.

The SNOMED CT terminology teams released reference sets and supporting material for Pathology and Discharge Summary, two of the four domains for which NEHTA plans to release “packages” of services that relate to clinical areas where exchange of information is critical to improving health service delivery. The other two areas are Medication Management and Referrals. A package, as delivered by NEHTA, describes how users will adopt NEHTA’s specifications and use them in conjunction with one another and to provide enough supporting material to inform adoption and implementation across the e-health community.

The Clinical Safety Assessment Program commenced late in 2008 and delivered the first version of the process that will audit, review, and continuously improve NEHTA’s terminology development processes. As it matures, it will expand to cover other NEHTA development areas.

2009 is NEHTA’s year of delivery. By the end of the year, NEHTA will deliver with key partners two milestone projects using NEHTA specifications. The final projects have not yet been selected, but they are likely to be in the areas of Discharge Summary and Medication Management.

Affiliate Licensees

As of February 2009, there were 246 Australian Affiliate licensees, an increase of 75% since last year.

Affiliate licence page: https://nehta.org.au/aht/



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Australia 2010 Update 2009 Update 2008 Update 2007 Update Canada Cyprus Denmark Estonia Iceland Lithuania Malta New Zealand Poland Singapore Slovak Republic Slovenia Spain Sweden The Netherlands United Kingdom United States	Australia's Update April 2009 National activities The National Release Centre delivered significant new capabilities and process improvements in the past year, including: • a new Namespace management process, • improved licensing management, • integration of our service management system with the NEHTA-wide issues management system, and • a Terminology Newsletter. NEHTA’s Australian Medicines Terminology development continued this year, and met its objective to include all items on the Australian Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme by October 2008. The team is now adding items from the Australian Register of Therapeutic Goods with the objective of reaching by June 2009 content of 99% of all Australian prescribable items. The future goal is to integrate the Australian Medicines Terminology into SNOMED CT as Australia’s national medicines extension. The SNOMED CT terminology teams released reference sets and supporting material for Pathology and Discharge Summary, two of the four domains for which NEHTA plans to release “packages” of services that relate to clinical areas where exchange of information is critical to improving health service delivery. The other two areas are Medication Management and Referrals. A package, as delivered by NEHTA, describes how users will adopt NEHTA’s specifications and use them in conjunction with one another and to provide enough supporting material to inform adoption and implementation across the e-health community. The Clinical Safety Assessment Program commenced late in 2008 and delivered the first version of the process that will audit, review, and continuously improve NEHTA’s terminology development processes. As it matures, it will expand to cover other NEHTA development areas. 2009 is NEHTA’s year of delivery. By the end of the year, NEHTA will deliver with key partners two milestone projects using NEHTA specifications. The final projects have not yet been selected, but they are likely to be in the areas of Discharge Summary and Medication Management. Affiliate Licensees As of February 2009, there were 246 Australian Affiliate licensees, an increase of 75% since last year. Affiliate licence page: https://nehta.org.au/aht/