Improving cancer screening outcomes through a centralised cancer screening database

Telstra Health’s Population Health Platform is designed to fully support preventive health, chronic disease management and population health screening programs, enabling a single electronic record for program participants.

The platform is configured to operationalise clinical pathways, from initial invitation through to diagnosis to ensure participants receive accurate and timely diagnostic services.

Preventing prescription medication misuse

Real Time Prescription Monitoring provides near real-time, accurate and up-to-date clinical data about a patient’s medication history at the point of prescribing and dispensing to identify patients who may be at risk of medication misuse.

National Cancer Screening Register (NCSR)

The National Cancer Screening Register (NCSR) is a world-first, digital platform developed to underpin the Australian Government’s National Bowel Cancer Screening Program (NBCSP) and National Cervical Screening Program (NCSP). 

The NCSR has been designed to enable a single electronic record for each person participating in the programs, and provides a national electronic infrastructure for the collection, storage, analysis and reporting of screening program data. 

It is the first digital health system in Australia to comprehensively link all relevant population screening stakeholders, including the Commonwealth Government and state health authorities, GPs, specialists, public and private pathology services, and the participant.

The NCSR supports the end-to-end operations of the screening programs by:

• Inviting and reminding eligible people to participate in bowel and cervical screening and supporting clinical follow-up for participants with screen-detected abnormalities.
• Generating comprehensive data to inform policy and improve screening program quality and service delivery.
• Providing healthcare professionals better access to quality health information and making it easier for program participants to take control of their health.

Find out more on the NCSR website

Real Time Prescription Monitoring

In 2016 there were over 1,800 deaths in Australia as a result of prescription medicine overdoses. Telstra Health’s joint venture for pharmacy and medications management solutions, Fred IT Group, was recently awarded the contract to build the National Data Exchange to enable the introduction of a national approach to real-time prescription monitoring.

This national approach will play a significant role in helping to prevent prescription medication misuse by:

• Providing health professionals with real time, accurate and up to date clinical data about their patients’ monitored medication history at the point of prescribing and dispensing.
• Enabling pharmacists and GPs to identify and support patients who are at risk.

Fred IT also built the Victorian real-time prescription monitoring system (SafeScript) which went live on 2nd October 2018. Fred IT will draw on its experience with this solution to support the national extension of real time prescription monitoring to health professionals in all states and territories. 

Find out more about SafeScript