My Health Record brings diagnostic test results online
Friday, 04 October, 2019
The latest (MHR) update has given patients and healthcare professionals easier access to pathology and diagnostic imaging results, in what has been described by the (ADHA) as a bid to 鈥渂etter support clinical decisions鈥 and improve usability.
The ADHA said the update is a 鈥渟tep-change鈥 in the way healthcare providers and patients can 鈥渃onveniently and securely view medical reports鈥, allows healthcare professionals to 鈥榞roup鈥 test results and reports based on date and relevance 鈥 helping them keep track of whether, when and where tests were performed and monitor patients鈥 results over time.
Additionally, clinical information system (CIS) applications that have implemented the MHR Document List can now automatically generate pathology and diagnostic imaging overviews 鈥 a function that previously had to be developed by CIS vendors.
ADHA Chief Medical Adviser Professor Meredith Makeham said the update 鈥渆nhances the way we can view diagnostic imaging and pathology reports to gain a quick snapshot of a patient鈥檚 test result history鈥.
鈥淭he new overviews show you multiple reports within a specific date range on one page, and that improves the ability of healthcare providers to access important test result information that we need to inform clinical decision,鈥 Prof Makeham said.
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