The NCSR supports the National Cervical Screening Program (NCSP) and the National Bowel Cancer Screening Program (NBCSP) by inviting, reminding and following up participants for screening, as well as generating comprehensive data to inform policy and improve quality.
Additional functionality is available for healthcare providers to improve access to patients screening information and provides the ability to submit clinical data online via a new Healthcare Provider Portal and through integrations with clinical desktop software.
The new functionality enables:
The Register platform is currently integrating with market leading clinical information systems in the field of primary care which includes integration with the Communicare platform.
According to AIHW, indigenous Australians participate at a lower rate than non-indigenous Australians and in 2011–2015, Indigenous Australians were 1.4 times as likely to die from cancer as non-Indigenous Australians.
By providing online access to Register data via the Healthcare Provider Portal and through integration with Clinical Information Systems, healthcare providers will have easier access to their patients NCSP and NBCSP information to assist with providing recommendations to their patients.
Approximately 5,000 healthcare providers have registered to use the portal with data showing the most popular functionality is to view patients cervical screening histories and to order iFOBT kits for their patients.
A formal data request policy is in place for researchers and the portals and CIS integration open up new opportunities for researchers to study interventions to improve participation among underscreeners. The presentation will showcase the portal and features.