Pharmacy Vaccination Settings (AIR) - Set Up
Medadvisor for Pharmacy allows you to integrate with the Australian Immunisation Register (AIR). It will save time viewing the patient’s AIR history before administrating a vaccination and upload the record to the AIR, once you complete the services.
Participating health professionals may utilise the services and information provided, including personal information only in accordance with National (Privacy Act 1988. Health Insurance Act 1973, Australia Immunisation Register Act 2015 and other relevant legislation), State or Territory legislation, Policy and Guidelines.
Please follow the steps below to set up your pharmacy for webservices and submit the relevant form to Medicare:
To set up AIR integration for your pharmacy, follow the below steps
- Go to Medadvisor for Pharmacy. Select Patients in the left-hand menu
- Select SERVICE SETTINGS
- Enter your AIR Immunisation provider number
Important:
Remember to UPDATE AFTER ENTERING YOUR IMMUNISATION PROVIDER NUMBER.
The Immunisation Provider Number is CASE SENSITIVE
- Select Update settings
- You will now be able to view your Minor ID, enter this into this into the HW027 form
- Complete your HW027 form as per the attached guide and submit to Medicare.
Once Medicare has received this form, they will approve your pharmacy for AIR Webservices, and you will be able to view patient vaccination history in MedAdvisor for Pharmacy via any immunisaton recording form.
Once updated you will then be able to search for a patient in Record Services and access the Service Dropdown > Vaccination/ Flu Vaccination and view the patients vaccination history in the 'Patient Vaccination History' section
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