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- RCPAQAP has 12 disciplines with over 700 modules and ~ 200 programs run annually
- Conformance work being undertaken for Australian & New Zealand laboratories although NZ laboratories are working mostly with HL7 Messaging Standard v2.2 and have different terminologies
- Laboratories have requested ability to provide External Quality Assurance Program results by HL7 messages as opposed to manual data input in myQAP Portal to stop duplication of effort & reduce manual transcription errors
- Hoping to also encourage industry-wide adoption of Australian Diagnostics and Referral Messaging – Localisation of Hl7 Version 2.4 – HL7 Australia Standard for electronic exchange of pathology results + hoping to motivate Practice Management System vendors to adopt receipt of HL7AUSD-STD-OO-ADRM-2018.1, incorporating electronic results receipt
- ADHA looking at extending Secure Messaging Industry Offer to include orders and results
- Current RCPAQAP EQA External QA Programs supporting HL7 messaging are: Chemical Pathology, Cytopathology, Haematology & Immunopathology
- Caristix Conformance software being utilised, also being used by QLD Health, Victoria etc
- @Michael Czapski is seeking validation of Conformance Profile document from HL7 O&O members, but is a 12 MB file; to be refined further before HL7 O&O work to undertake full review
- Several OBX validation error messages observed, many relating to terminology e.g. Code [LN-RCPA-00080] or similar (placeholders for result codes not yet created by LOINC); noted that many LOINC codes for structed structured Colorectal cancer protocol have yet to be created - validation errors expected
- Structed Structured reporting of cancers not widely utilised at this point in time
- Other errors observed e.g. PID.7 error (Date of birth) due to timezone not being included – Standard states timezone must be specified
Suggest trialling trialing Conformance software using simple HL7 standards compliant Chemical Pathology message as found on HL7 site, separate out non-conformance error not relating to terminology before considering updating HL7 Standard v2.4 if necessary
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