2020 - LATEST UPDATE
Illawarra Shoalhaven HealthPathways is well placed to assist with COVID-19 communication to GPs and other primary care health professionals. These are the COVID-19 related HealthPathways with several more in draft:

• COVID-19 Initial Assessment and Management 
• COVID-19 Assesment and Management in Residential Aged Care
• COVID-19 Child Assessment and Management
• COVID-19 Practice Preparation
• COVID-19 Requests
• COVID-19 Impact on Clinical Care
• COVID-19 Impact on Local Services
• Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Information
• COVID-19 Telehealth

The clinical components have been developed by the whole HealthPathways Clinical Community. Hunter New England has carriage to continually update the COVID-19 Initial Assessment and Management pathway that is identical for each NSW region. Dr Louise Delaney, working with our team since September 2015, is also the Clinical Lead Advice and Support for the whole HPs Community and has been instrumental in getting this response underway.

PATHWAY DEVELOPMENT
491 pathways are now published. Click on localised pathways to access.
To track pathways under development click on PATHWAY PROGRESS in the top menu bar.  

MOBILE FRIENDLY PLATFORM 
A mobile friendly platform is now available.

2019 END OF YEAR MESSAGE
Click on the end of year update from the HealthPathways Team and Steering Committee.

ILLAWARRA SHOALHAVEN INTEGRATED CARE STRATEGY 2018-2020
This strategy has been developed collaboratively by COORDINARE and Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District.  HPWIS is mentioned regularly within the document and is noted as an E-health enabler towards the continued integration of health care in the Illawarra Shoalhaven region. 

SHORT TERM EVALUATION REPORT
This is our HPWIS Short Term Evaluation Report for the period 2015 - 2017.

HEALTHPATHWAYS COMMUNITY EVALUATION PUBLICATIONS
This is the link to the publication database for the whole HealthPathways Community. 

These are Australian Health Review publications of note for the Australian HealthPathways Community:
1. 4-year journey of Hunter and New England HealthPathways, published Feb 2017 
2. HealthPathways improving access to care in Barwon, Victoria, published Feb 2018
3. Implementing Healthpathways across Queensland, a case study, published in May 2019.

SITE USAGE
As expected site usage continues to rise. In comparing Jan - May to the same period in 2019, session usage has increased 96%, page views 66% and users 17%.   

To track the usage for each quarter click on the USAGE DATA in the top menu bar.   

The site has been live since 21 Sept 2015.

CLINICAL EDITOR ACHIEVEMENTS
Dr Louise Delaney has published a significant number of pathways for our local site since 2015, too many to name. Louise is also the Clinical Lead - HealthPathways Advice and Support across the HealthPathways International Community. 

Drs Jan Hogbin and Soli Duveaux joined our team in late 2017 and are drafting/publishing pathways. Dr Eniko Ujvary joined our team in December 2019. To view the team and other key contributors click here or on the TEAM in the top menu bar.

Looking for clinical pathways and referral information:

Behind the scenes, COORDINARE and ISLHD are gearing up to ensure the HealthPathways site is the central portal to locate referral options and send secure electronic referrals using Best Practice or Medical Director. This is a much needed advancement that has been requested by many GPs at clinical working groups.

As clinical pathways are localised a new style provider directory is being collated to list public, private and other community options. This is a useful development for the Illawarra Shoalhaven. The site's search engine is an efficient way to locate a pathway, specialist or service.

The HPWIS Team appreciates and thanks the District Clinical Divisions and Departments for their advice. ISLHD Clinical Stream Directors and other specialists are providing oversight on clinical pathways.

Our GP Clinical Editors spend time with these clinicians to ensure pathways are localised expediently and with the latest medical assessment and management information. ISLHD Clinical Nursing and Allied Health professionals are also providing tremendous support to ensure the advice and request/referral pages and support information reflect current service provisions.

The COORDINARE and ISLHD partnership is ensuring GPs, specialists and other health professionals are working together with patients at the centre of the discussions and developments.