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The Practice Incentives Program eHealth Incentive (ePIP) aims to encourage general practices to keep up to date with the latest developments in digital health and adopt new digital health technology as it becomes available.
It aims to help practices improve administration processes and patient care.
To be eligible to participate in the Practice Incentive Program, a general practice must be accredited or registered for accreditation, against the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) Standards for general practices. PIP is administered by Services Australia on behalf of the Department of Health and Aged Care.
To qualify for PIP incentives, practices must meet specific compliance requirements. These requirements include data records and clinical coding standards. Maintaining accurate records and coding is not just a means to compliance but also a path to practice improvement.
Read the ePIP Guidelines on the Services Australia website and find out about the ePIP incentive eligibility requirements.
You can also download the RACGP practice Incentives Program eHealth Incentive (ePIP) fact sheet for more information.
The Practice Incentive Program eHealth Incentive (ePIP) has five eligibility requirements:
The practice must have a standards-compliant secure messaging capability to electronically transmit and receive clinical messages to and from other healthcare providers, use it where feasible, and have a written policy to encourage its use in place. Find out more about secure messaging on our website.
Practices must ensure that where clinically relevant, they are working towards recording the majority of diagnoses for active patients electronically, using a medical vocabulary that can be mapped against a nationally recognised disease classification or terminology system. Practices must provide a written policy to this effect to all GPs within the practice. Consider adopting the Data Records and Coding Policy template from the RACGP to establish clear guidelines and encourage consistent usage within your organisation.
The practice must ensure that the majority of their prescriptions are sent electronically to a Prescription Exchange Service (PES).
Contact eRx, the national prescription delivery service provider, to register:
eRx Script Exchange
Phone: 1300 700 921
Email: support@erx.com.au
Web: www.erx.com.au
Learn more about Electronic Prescribing on our website.
The practice must use compliant software for accessing the My Health Record system, and for creating and posting shared health summaries and event summaries;
In order to meet ePIP requirements, practices must ensure that their software systems are compliant. This is achieved by practices consulting the ePIP Product Register.
Information for software vendors about conformance to meet the Practice Incentives Program (PIP) eHealth Incentive requirements. Find out more.
The size of the ePIP payment is dependent on the size of the practice and is a maximum payment of $12,500 per quarter. Practices must comply with all five eligibility criteria to continue to receive the ePIP payments.
For general information about the PIP, you can contact Services Australia via the below methods:
For more detail on the administration of the Practice Incentives Program (PIP) and the incentives available please refer to the Services Australia program page.
Healthcare providers, software vendors and digital health adopters who are getting started with and using digital health can call the Help Centre on 1300 901 001 or contact ADHA via their contact page.
You can find more information about this incentive on these online resources::
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