The Parkville precinct hospitals, including the Royal Melbourne Hospital, the Royal Children’s Hospital, the Royal Women’s Hospital and Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, are improving the way that specialist clinic referral notifications are sent to referring providers.
Currently, these notifications – which include acceptance and rejection of referrals, and discharge from specialist clinics – are sent by fax.
In future, these notifications will be sent via HealthLink secure messaging for all referring providers who have a current active HealthLink ID.
For clinics that do not have an active HealthLink ID, referrer notifications will continue to be sent by fax.
Additionally, for Royal Melbourne Hospital patients, notifications of inpatient admission, discharge and death will also transition to HealthLink secure messaging.
The transition from fax to secure messaging will occur over the next few weeks.
Disclaimer: This article was provided by The Royal Melbourne Hospital. While every effort has been made to ensure the information is accurate, North Western Melbourne Primary Health Network does not warrant or represent the accuracy, currency and completeness of any information or material included within.
