3DHBs tender for e-referral system

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The closing date for responding to the 3DHBs’ e-referral solution tender has been extended to 22 October 2018.

The tender says the DHBs require an off-the-shelf, end-to-end electronic patient referral solution (e-referral solution), together with related configuration and implementation services, and ongoing support. 

Capital & Coast, Hutt Valley and Wairarapa DHBs process just under 200,000 referrals from GPs, specialists and other community providers each year.

“Current referral management processes lack a common platform, clinical rules, agreed standards, logic and alignment with 3D HealthPathways. High decline rates, duplication, lost effort and re-work are persistent, driving quality down and cost up,” the tender documents say.

“Further, referrals are often characterised by a low level of automation, substandard provision of required clinical information and test results required by specialists, subsequently resulting in a high level of administrative effort triaging referrals. 

“The objective of introducing electronic referral functionality is to maximise the value of the referral process through which access to specialist advice and/or care management is accessed by primary care clinicians.”

A 3DHB e-referral solution is expected to:

• enhance and support approaches to collaborative clinical care between primary and secondary care
• improve the patient clinical pathway and care
• strengthen the link between primary and secondary care
• improve the information available to clinical providers.

The e-referral solution will be implemented by the 3DHBs and their community-based primary health care providers’ sites.

Source: gets.govt.nz, 26 September 2018

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