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Simon Moy - Project Manager – ABF implementation – Outpatients Annette Gilchrist – Project Officer – ABF Implementation - Outpatients. The Victorian Experience – implementing a classification and reporting process for acute non-admitted activity. Previous vs Current - Outpatients.
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Simon Moy - Project Manager – ABF implementation – Outpatients Annette Gilchrist – Project Officer – ABF Implementation - Outpatients The Victorian Experience – implementing a classification and reporting process for acute non-admitted activity
What is the Non-admitted Clinic Management System (NACMS)? • Electronic registration system • 17 fields + contact details • Clinic ID MUST be unique • Accessed via the healthcollect portal • 41 ABF health services
Non-admitted Clinic Management System – Implementation – Stage 1 • VACS hospitals – sent out their VACS schedule • Other hospitals – start from scratch – listing all clinics • Health services submitted clinic details to Department of Health (DH)
Non-admitted Clinic Management System – Implementation - Stage 2 • Approx 3500 clinics submitted by hospitals • All clinics reviewed by DH • Clinics were approved or followed-up • Review process took 8-12 weeks – resource intensive
Non-admitted Clinic Management System – Implementation - Stage 3 • Bulk upload to NACMS • System went ‘live’ in March 2012
S10 form • Collects aggregate service event activity • Only clinics registered on NACMS display on S10 • No registration = No activity data • Unique clinic ID is the link b/n classification, counting and costing
What have been the challenges? • Initially extremely resource intensive for DH • Identifying non-admitted services to register • Ensuring only eligible acute clinics registered • Ongoing – resource required • Completeness/quality of information
What are the benefits? • Huge database of clinics • Linkage between classification, counting and costing • Hospitals manage their own clinic registrations • Hospitals can view the clinic status at any time • Electronic vs paper
The future System enhancement • Ability to save multiple Tier 2 classes against a single clinic – necessary to accommodate annual changes to the Tier 2 classification