Electronic Discharge Summaries

Project lead: Sean Conley

The Electronic Discharge Summary Project within TrakCare (MedTrak) has drawn to a close. This project has been very successful with 80% of Clinical Units now using the Electronic Discharge Summary process within TrakCare.

The Electronic Discharge Summary process allows Clinicians to compile an electronic discharge summary throughout a pts stay and on the patients discharge electronically send the discharge summary to the patients General Practitioner within the community. The patient also receives a paper based copy of the summary to take home with them.

Some of the improvements resulting from this project are:

70% of discharge summaries are now sent to General Practitioners within 24hrs of discharge.
Clinicians within Austin Health now have multi point access to patients discharge summaries 24hrs a day seven days a week.

Weekly reports on Discharge Summary Usage are now generated within TrakCare and sent out to heads of Units by the Health Information Services Department. For any inquiries regarding this report please contact Toni Young (Operations Manager HIS).

As part of this project all Medical Interns starting at Austin Health undergo 40 minutes training on Electronic Discharge Summary use. All other medical staff have access to short three minute web based training videos. All staff are also able to have one on one training by contacting the IT Training Department and arranging a time.

Ongoing technical support will continue to be provided by the Austin IT department. Should you need to contact the IT department please call ext 5055 and log a call with the IT Help Desk. Alternatively you can contact the Help Desk via email.

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