Patient discharge summary solution

  
The electronic patient discharge summary is legible, consistent, electronic admission summary that is delivered securely to the patient's General Practitioner (GP), allowing them to provide more timely post-discharge patient care.

The summary is produced when a patient is discharged from a Queensland Health facility and is now available in all Queensland Health hospitals and facilities.
 

What does the discharge summary mean for patients?

• Improved post-discharge patient care.
• Significant benefit to rural and remote patients as local GPs can receive discharge summaries faster.
• Quicker assessment of discharge information.
• The discharge process can begin at admission and be updated throughout a patient’s stay.
   

What does the discharge summary mean for GPs?

• GPs receive patient discharge summaries directly, quickly and securely.
   

What does the discharge summary mean for Queensland Health clinicians?

• A better, more timely and cost effective way patient discharge summaries are generated, managed and distributed.
• A discharge summary begins at admission and is kept updated throughout the patient’s stay.
• Improves compliance with key health care policies and standards.
  

“There is great value in receiving a discharge summary less than 24 hours after their patient is discharged from the hospital... This information is essential to providing appropriate continuity of care.” 
Dr Norman Hohl, General Practitioner, Gold Coast
 

Discharge summaries and the patient journey

  
 
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