2008 Vendor information forum

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Overview

The vendor forum convened by the Primary Health Branch on March 12 was an opportunity for software application vendors to:

• hear about changes to the Service Coordination Tool Templates (SCTT) and the Victorian Statewide Referral Form (VSRF) as part of the 2008 revision;
• receive an introduction to the changes that are likely to be made to the SCTT and VSRF as part of the 2009 revision; and
• learn what the Department of Human Services is doing to support vendors to keep their software products up to date as part of the 2008 revision.

The forum was well attended by vendors of patient/client management software applications to the health and human services sectors – including a number of the GP software application vendors – and the vendors of the e-referral systems. Representatives from health and human services agencies, Primary Care Partnerships, the ICT Alliances, GPV and DHS also attended.

Antonio Abbenante, Integration Manager with the Office of Health Information Systems delivered a presentation on e-referral, messaging and HL7. His presentation made clear the important role of the SCTT and VSRF in sharing standard information between health and human services providers and the role of the current e-referral systems in delivering the "distributor services" functions.

Jonathan Ashley, Manager of IM Strategy Unit with the department’s Planning & Resources Branch, also presented at the forum. Jonathan's presentation focused on the DHS Information Management Strategy and the work of his team, and DMAC, in easing the data burden of funded organisations, systems suppliers and DHS itself through data collection and reporting reform.

Post forum materials

Topic	Presenter	Download
2009 revision	Jenk Akyalcin	Vendor information forum - 2009 revision (245kb, pdf)
2008 corrections	Adrian Watson	2008 Corrections (169kb, pdf)
HealthSMART E-referrals	Antonio Abbenante	HealthSMART e-Referrals Messaging and Application Requirements (305kb, pdf)
DHS Information Managment Strategy	Jonathan Ashley	DHS Information Management Strategy - briefing to SCTT Vendor Information Forum (145kb, pdf)

Implementation products

SCTT data dictionary - Version 3.1.1 (774kb, pdf)
SCTT codesets - Version 3.1.1 (625kb, pdf)
SCTT high level model - Version 3.1.1 (115kb, MS Visio)
SCTT information model - Version 3.1.1 (650kb, MS Visio)
Victorian Statewide Referral Form (VSRF) - data dictionary - Version 1.0 (649kb, pdf)
Victorian Statewide Referral Form (VSRF) - codesets - Version 1.0 (359kb, pdf)
VSRF information model - Version 1.0 (72kb, MS Visio)
VSRF information model - Version 1.0 (326kb, MS Visio)

SCTT 2008 changes (16kb, pdf)

Vendors are also encouraged to review the information and materials on the Primary Care Partnerships' Service Coordination page.

Implementation date

Changes to be implemented in software applications by July 1 2008.

List of those who attended the forum

2008 Vendor information forum - list of attendees (26kb, MS Excel)

More information

Contact:

Adrian Watson
Tel: (61 3) 9096 8041
Email: adrian.watson@dhs.vic.gov.au.

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