Healthlink
Healthlink provides an electronic messaging service that allows clinical patient Information to be securely transferred between GPs, hospitals and other health care agencies. This efficient sharing of patient information has the following benefits:
- Reduces administrative workloads for primary and secondary care practitioners
- Improves the quality of patient care
- Improves data integrity
- Reduces manual error
The service became operational in 1995 as a single hospital proof-of-concept and has evolved over time to achieve national broker status for country-wide health messaging. Healthlink transfers a range of structured clinical reports in real time; message files are specified in HL7, an internationally recognised standard for healthcare information exchange and formatted in XML.
Over the years Healthlink has enabled integration with the accredited GP practice management systems, a number of hospital EPR systems, MN-CMS, Swiftqueue appointment scheduling system and so on.
The support team provide support and training on all aspects of the application from downloading test reports to sending eReferrals. Users vary from GPs and their staff to public health practitioners and hospital admin teams. The range of message types has grown to include a suite of referrals, radiology orders along with vaccination reports, sick certs, maternity shared-care reports and PCRS reimbursements.
Contact us:
(01) 7784998, support.healthlink@hse.ie
