Greg Twyford wrote: > Maybe I'm thick, or I've missed something, but I can't see for the life of me how specialists will get interested in messaging with GPs on a widespread basis unless they can receive referrals electronically as well.
Specialists aren't interested in receiving referrals electronically and if I were a specialist I would prefer the lower transactional costs of a piece of paper than an encrypted email that I had to keep for ?7 years. I am currently in the early stages of negotiating an ADSL line for one of our ophthalmogists. He rightly points out that the benefit of electronic data transfer will accrue to me. I will therefore undertake to be responsible for the installation and first year's costs for his ADSL account. It's all part of our "Adopt a Specialist" program. > While MA [Medicare Australia] continue to require signing with one of their individual certificates I can't see how replacing HeSA key use in Argus makes sense. GPs need their location keys for Medicare Online, and seems to be no problem. I think the model is pathology transmission. Doctors usually don't need the government to tell them who they are and the rest they can sort out for themselves. > The myriad approaches to secure messaging seem to ignore this issue, but to get most GPs and specialists on-board it seems pretty important to me. I hope Argus is listening. David _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
