This document provides information on securely accessing the EMMA platform, by Compact Care.
Setup
Prerequisites
- Register your Organisation/Providers with Compact Care
- CareRight version 6.98 or higher
- Configure Health Identifier Service. If you have implemented MyHealthRecord within your organisation, you have already completed all necessary steps.
If the above prerequisites are met, follow the steps below
Admin > System > External Medication Platform
- Go to Administration from dashboard.
- Click on System.
- Click on External Medication Platforms.
Add and enable EMMA as per the below.
Patient Service > Configure Data Provider
EMMA
To obtain credentials, as an Administrator in the EMMA product; create a specific user for your CareRight installation:
- Select a strong username and password (14 characters or greater).
- Ensure appropriate roles are available
CareRight
So that patient records can be published to EMMA, configure a Data Producer as per the below setup.
Note: Compact Care will provide you with a specific authentication URL and API endpoint. The values depicted below are for test.
User experience
Patient records
When patient records are updated, when they have:
- A verified IHI or
- A medicare number verified by OPV or
- A DVA number verified by OPV
CareRight will publish data to the configured platform, and present a link in the banner.
The following record is created in the EMMA platform
Supported data:
- Patient given, family name
- Patient date of birth (DOB), sex
- Active allergies (as textual representation)
- Patient weight, height
- Patient image
- Patient room - note, we recommend modelling this as Ward or Area.
- Admission status (admitted, discharged)
- Medicare, DVA and IHI numbers
- Leave
Not currently supported:
- Current medication lists
- Weight charts
- Vitals charts
Manage External Identifiers
For a number of integrations, it is common that one or more External Identifiers may be created by an integration.
In rare cases, a technical support staff member may need to add, remove or edit these identifiers.
For individuals with the role technical_support; under Patient > External Identifiers there is the ability to List, Add, Edit, and Remove external identifiers
