Vendor information forum

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Overview

The forum on the revision and future of Victoria's Service Coordination Tool Templates convened on the morning of Wednesday 26 November was an opportunity for those with an interest in service coordination and e-health to learn about the changes that have been made to the tool templates as part of the current revision. It was also an opportunity to learn about:

• the future of the tool templates;
• the current revision of the Victorian Statewide Referral Form (the tool used across Victoria to support referral from General Practice);
• e-referral and HL7 messaging; and
• progress of the department's data and information reform work.

More than 130 people attended the forum. A large number of those who attended were vendors of patient / client management applications to the health and human services sectors – including vendors working in the GP space - and vendors of e-referral systems. Representatives of health and human services agencies, Victoria’s Primary Care Partnerships, the regional ICT Alliances, numerous peak bodies, and both state and commonwealth government also attended.

Jonathan Ashley, Information Management Strategy Unit, and Antonio Abbenante, Office of Health Information Systems, delivered the key note presentations.

Jonathan's key note presentation focused on the DHS Information Management Strategy and the work of his team, and DHS’ Data Management Advisory Committee, in easing the data burden of funded organisations, systems suppliers and DHS itself through data collection. Jonathan’s presentation also highlighted the many benefits of common data dictionaries including the improved efficiency in data capture, storage, and transmission.

Antonio’s key note presentation made clear the important role of the SCTT and the VSRF in sharing standard information between health and human services providers and re-emphasised the role of the current e-referral systems in delivering application functions, and standard data messaging structures to enable application to application business continuity for e-referral. In addition Antonio’s presentation detailed how the HealthSMART CareDIRECT Project is challenging,proving, and defining the relevant business processes, generic application functions, and messaging structures to enable the SCTT and the VSRF to be used in a HL7 messaging environment across Victoria.

Post forum materials

Presenter	Topic
Jenk Akyalcin	Context for improved coordination of services in Victoria (263kb, pdf)
Jonathan Ashley	DHS Information Management Strategy (214kb, pdf)
Antonio Abbenante	HealthSMART, CareDIRECT, and eReferral (399kb, pdf)
Adrian Watson	SCTT 2009 (193kb, pdf)
Frank Aitken & Jane Measday	Outpatient improvement and innovation strategy (1MB, pdf)
Helen Dickson	Personal Alert Victoria (155kb, pdf)

Implementation products

SCTT

SCTT (7,168kb, WinZip File)

SCTT Layout – Version 4.1
SCTT High Level Conceptual Model – Version 4.1
SCTT Low Level Conceptual Model – Version 4.1
SCTT Data Dictionary – Version 4.1
SCTT Code Sets – Version 4.1.1
SCTT Functional Specification – Version 4.1
SCTT HL7 Messaging Specification – Version 4.1
SCTT Change Control Table – Version 4.1 §

VSRF

VSRF (2,726kb, WinZip File)

VSRF Layout – Version 1.1
VSRF High Level Conceptual Model – Version 1.1
VSRF Low Level Conceptual Model – Version 1.1
VSRF Data Dictionary – Version 1.1
VSRF Code Sets – Version 1.1
VSRF Functional Specification – Version 1.1
VSRF HL7 Messaging Specification – Version 1.1
VSRF Change Control Table – Version 1.1 §

PAV

PAV (2,235kb, WinZip File)

PAV Layout – Version 1.1
PAV High Level Conceptual Model – Version 1.1
PAV Low Level Conceptual Model – Version 1.1
PAV Data Dictionary – Version 1.1
PAV Code Sets – Version 1.1
PAV Functional Specification – Version 1.1
PAV HL7 Messaging Specification – Version 1.1

§ In addition to referring to the Change Control Table, vendors are strongly encouraged to refer to the tool layouts, the high level and the low level conceptual models, the data dictionaries, the code sets, the HL7 messaging implementers specifications, the functional specifications, and relevant state, national, and international standards prior to implementation of SCTT 2009. Please note that while all efforts have been made to ensure the accuracy of the Change Control Table the Department of Human Services will not be held responsible for any inaccuracies, omissions, or otherwise.

Implementation date

Changes to be implemented in software applications by July 1 2009.

List of those who attended the forum

Vendor information forum - list of attendees (61kb, MS Excel)

More information

Adrian Watson
Primary Health Integration
Telephone: (61 3) 9096 8041

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