HealthPathways adds bipolar disorder to mental health topics
The HealthPathways team has added a new localised pathway – Bipolar Disorder – to the website’s comprehensive suite of mental health topics. The pathway has been developed at the request of the Mid North Coast HealthPathways Mental Health Work Group with input and feedback from psychiatric specialists across Mid and North Coast NSW. ‘We’ve designed
Evaluation report finds HealthPathways should be ‘single source of truth’
An evaluation report into Mid and North Coast HealthPathways has found HealthPathways should be embedded as a single source of truth for local primary care. The report also found the established online resource should be leveraged to support coordination and integration across the three levels of the health system. Report methodology Research organisation The Science of
Responding to HealthPathways error message
As many clinicians in our local health system share the same username / password combination to access HealthPathways, Google Password Manager sometimes presents this misleading error message: In this instance the message is no cause for concern, as no personal or patient data is compromised. If you receive this warning message when you access the
HealthPathways May 2023 update
A number of new pathways have been added to the Mid and North Coast HealthPathways website. These include: Voluntary Assisted Dying Medications Advice in Pregnancy and Breastfeeding Diabetes in Pregnancy Down Syndrome Non-acute Endocrinology Assessment. Listed below are the top 10 clinical pathways accessed within the past 12 months: COVID-19 Medications COVID-19 Management Antenatal Care
Tell us about your HealthPathways needs
The Mid and North Coast HealthPathways platform developers at Streamliners are seeking feedback from users about the search results on the HealthPathways mobile-friendly site. The developers are working on improvements to help users get to the right information more quickly. As the program developers start to design the next round of work on the platform,
Testosterone deficiency in men – relatively common, occasionally serious
Testosterone deficiency in men is a common and often complex problem and is also a frequently searched topic on Mid and North Coast HealthPathways. HealthPathways Clinical Editor Dr Hilton Koppe said the HealthPathways team recently created the localised Testosterone Deficiency in Men page in response to the demand for information. ‘The thing about testosterone deficiency
HealthPathways team on top of reviews, updates
It’s been a big year for the Mid and North Coast HealthPathways team, which completed 143 pathway reviews to the end of November and has another 74 in progress. This puts Mid and North Coast HealthPathways at the forefront of New South Wales’ 13 primary health networks for pathways reviewed in 2022. The Mid and
See all the latest HealthPathways updates
Have a look through the new pathways we have added to our Mid and North Coast HealthPathways website: Diabetes and Driving Fatty Liver Disease Our GP clinical editors have also reviewed and updated the following pathways: Screening and Diagnosis of Diabetes Pre-diabetes Occupational Therapy Driving Assessment Acute Diabetes Assessment Diabetes Education Heart Failure Cardiac Drugs
Create a shortcut to HealthPathways from your clinical software
Medical Director clinical software allows you to create shortcuts for websites. For example, you can add Mid and North Coast HealthPathways as a shortcut to open in your default web browser, directly from Medical Director. HealthPathways has step-by-step instructions on how to create a HealthPathways shortcut in Medical Director. Open this link: How do I
HealthPathways ‘Summary of Referral Pages’ changes name and position
It’s now easier for HealthPathways users to have the information they need at their fingertips, with a change to the HealthPathways home page. A new tab, Local Specialists and Health Services, has been created and placed prominently near the top of the table of contents in the left-side margin. Previously, details about specialists and other
New HealthPathway – Low Back Pain in Adults
The HealthPathways team has recently reviewed three pathways on low back pain, consolidating and updating the information available into one easily accessible resource, Low Back Pain in Adults. Non-specific back pain makes up about 95 per cent of presentations for back pain to primary care. HealthPathways Clinical Editor Dr Hilton Koppe said as part of
HealthPathways offers latest information on inflammatory bowel disease
Inflammatory Bowel Disease is a new pathway recently added to the HealthPathways suite of localised information for clinicians and other health professionals. It includes up-to-date information on recent changes to Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) prescribing for inflammatory bowel disease medications. ‘Some of the medications which are really effective for inflammatory bowel disease were not previously
