Welcome to the April 2008 edition of the
CIAP Newsletter
April has brought us some welcome additions. The Palm Pilot version of Australian
Medicines Handbook has been released as well as some new editions of text books,
and three new journal titles are available on OVID.
Please continue to provide your feedback and don’t forget you can subscribe as an
individual by sending an
Happy reading from the CIAP Team!
Inside this issue:
Australian Medicine Handbook PALM Version now available
The purpose of the AMH is two-fold:
firstly, to provide a readily accessible, concise, up-to-date source of independent
drug information to facilitate effective, rational, safe and economical prescribing
and dispensing; secondly, to provide an educational tool for practitioners and students.
The AMH is totally Australian and its
contents reflect contemporary Australian clinical practice.
What platforms does it run on?
The Tungsten and the Treo (when running
PalmOS) are supported. Australian Medicine Handbook do not recommend the Palm Z22
as they found it to be unreliable while syncing and do not think the screen quality
is sufficient.
What are the differences between the Windows and Palm versions of pAMH?
There are some minor features that are
not included in the Palm version. These are:
- The ability to add a note to a document
- An outline view of the document
There are also some differences to the
layout to better suit the Palm platform. If you have any questions regarding the
PDA version of Australian
Medicine Handbook please
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Get the latest on the eMR
Look for the link under ‘Quick Links’
on the right hand side of CIAP’s homepage to access information about the eMR program.
Electronic
Medical Record - eMR (Intranet only)
is a major information management and technology program that is being implemented
to support improvements in clinical redesign and care delivery.
The initial rollout includes an emergency
department module; clinic scheduling; order management for the electronic ordering
and provision of results for pathology and medical imaging investigations;
consultation orders for medical, nursing and allied health consults; an operating
theatre module; and electronic discharge summaries.
The eMR website provides details on the initial
components of the Electronic Medical Record, the benefits, the development of the
standard build of the system and content, implementation plans, current progress
and newsletters and links to other sites. As implementation progresses, common
project materials including communication materials and collaborative workspaces
will be made available to support project implementation locally.
Introducing Manager, Knowledge Management Unit
Robyn Cook has worked in the Public Health
System for over twenty years, both as a clinician and manager, more recently in
clinical informatics and information management and technology (IM&T).
Robyn has held a number of positions in
HealthTechnology since 2005. Her initial role was to establish HealthTechnology’s
organisational performance management framework based on the balanced score card
(BSC). Other roles included Acting Program Management Office (PMO) Manager and
Clinical Portfolio Manager (PMO) as well as managing a range of programs including
Electronic Medical Record, Electronic Health Record, Cerner and iSoft Clinical Care
(predominantly Patient Administration Systems and Service), Clinical Support and
State Unique Patient Identifier.
Prior to joining the IM&T arena,
Robyn held positions as a senior nurse manager at both area and hospital levels
and as the Nurse Unit Manager St George Hospital Intensive Care Unit. Robyn also
has an extensive nursing experience both in Australia and the United Kingdom,
working in nurse education, neurosciences and intensive care nursing.
Robyn is very active in the Health
Informatics community, chairing the NSW Branch Health Informatics Society of
Australia (HISA) and Nursing Informatics Australia, the Nursing Special Interest
Group of HISA. Robyn is also the Australian representative to International
Medical Informatics Association, Nursing Informatics Special Interest Group.
New Resources and Changes on CIAP
New eBook editions
There have been four new editions for
textbooks on CIAP recently, listed below. You can find these in the left hand menu
on the front page of CIAP under ‘Online Books’.
New journals available
Managing Injuries by Venomous Sea Creatures in Australia
There is a link available on CIAP to
this valuable article in the Australian Prescriber Journal. The article covers
the management and treatment of injuries caused by venomous sea creatures in
Australia. You will find the article under Snake and Spiderbite Guidelines.
‘Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire’
W. B. Yeats
CIAP Training News
To book a local CIAP training session
contact Victoria Gardner on 0411 257 443. If you are interesting in attending a
session please check the
CIAP Education Schedule.
Scheduled Training Sessions in May 2008
| Date |
Location |
AHS |
Time |
Contact |
| 13/05/2008 |
Manly Hospital |
NSCCAHS |
14.00-15.00 |
Collette Terrey
Tel: 02 9976 9690 |
| 26/05/2008 |
HCN Training Room,
1/40 Oxley Street,
Crows Nest |
CEC |
13.30-15.30pm |
Therese Puedo
Tel:02 9382 7608 |
| 29/05/2008 |
HCN Training Room,
1/40 Oxley Street,
Crows Nest |
CEC |
10.00-12.00
13.30-15.30 |
Therese Puedo
Tel:02 9382 7608 |
OvidSP via Online Webex Training
Please visit the
CIAP
Education Schedule for a complete list of sessions and to register.
| Date |
Session Title |
Time |
| April 18, 2008 |
Embase in OvidSP |
9:00 am |
| April 18, 2008 |
Medline in OvidSP |
11:00 am |
| April 18, 2008 |
PsychINFO in OvidSP |
2:00 pm |
| May 7, 2008 |
Introduction to OvidSP |
9:00 am |
| May 8, 2008 |
Introduction to OvidSP |
9:00 am |
| May 8, 2008 |
OvidSP Train the Trainer |
11:00 am |
| May 8, 2008 |
Embase in OvidSP |
2:00 pm |
| May 9, 2008 |
Introduction to OvidSP |
9:00 am |
| June 11, 2008 |
Introduction to OvidSP |
9:00 am |
| June 11, 2008 |
Introduction to OvidSP |
2:00 pm |
| June 12, 2008 |
Embase in OvidSP |
9:00 am |
| June 12, 2008 |
Medline in OvidSP |
11:00 am |
| June 12, 2008 |
PsycINFO in OvidSP |
2:00 pm |
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April 2008
Comments and Feedback
CIAP welcomes your comments and feedback.
We would like to be informed of your experiences when using the
CIAP site. All feedback received is assessed and taken into
account to improve the viability of the site and increase the
useability at the point of care.
If you have any comments,
suggestions, or feedback, please contact us via
or call us on
1800 824 279.
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Safety Alert Broadcast System (SABS)
A link to the Safety Alert Broadcast System (SABS) is available
on the CIAP home page under Quick Links. New safety alerts
published will feature in the What's New @ CIAP
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Did You Know - Access the Clinical Excellence Commission website from CIAP
The Clinical Excellence Commission (CEC)
was launched on August
24 2004, as part of the NSW Patient Safety and Clinical Quality
Program. The CEC is a board-governed statutory health corporation
with the CEO reporting directly to the NSW Minister for Health.
An example of what you can find on the CEC site is the ISMP
Medication Safety Self Assessments. This web-based data entry
program will allow hospitals to enter their data online. Using
the web-based program, hospitals can assess the safety of their
medication practices, identify opportunities for improvement and
compare their experience with the aggregate experience of
demographically similar hospitals.
You can access this site from the right hand side of CIAP’s
homepage under “Quick Links”.
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Featuring Brachytherapy Journal - A Cancer Institute NSW Subscription
(Definition of Brachytherapy: Radiotherapy in
which the source of irradiation is placed close to the surface of the body or within a
body cavity)
Brachytherapy is an international and
multidisciplinary journal that publishes original peer-reviewed articles and selected
reviews on the techniques and clinical applications of interstitial radiation,
endovascular brachytherapy, and systemic brachytherapy in the management of cancer
and cardiac and other diseases. Laboratory and experimental research relevant to
clinical practice is also included.
This journal will be of interest to people
within the specialties of medical physics, medical oncology, and radiation oncology.
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ARCHI News
The March issue of ARCHI Net News contains full features of
these stories:-
- The Victorian Orthopaedic Waiting List (OWL) Project and
State-wide Implementation
- Evaluating Best Practice Compliance Using Discharge
Summaries
- NSW Health Awards and Expo
- Healthy Older People Earlier (HOPE) Program
- Web Watch - Primary Care Toolkit for Family Physicians
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Drug Database Updates
CIAP online resources are updated regularly according to
the following schedule:
- eTG Complete
(Therapeutic Guidelines) updated every
four months, recent update 12/04/2008
- Micromedex is
updated quarterly, recent update on 05/04/2008.
- MIMS is
updated monthly (usually first Saturday of the month); recent update
on 05/04/2008.
- pAHM (Australian Medicines Handbook for PDA) is updated
twice a year (January/July).
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