It is obviously hard to show any direct evidence, but I think
computerized prescribing is an advance on the previous situation.
I would suggest that better legibility and past records have probably
saved lives and certainly reduced morbidity
There was an almost universal takeup of computers by GPs in the interval
approx 1997-2002. This was achieved in the face of no real business case
(in fact significant cost) as far as the GP was concerned. Govt spent
only $50M or so to achieve this. Unfortunately there hasnt been much
progress since. Due to inertia and worries about risk and the usual
issues between states and Feds, the messaging space has been captured by
commercial interests. (Healthlink in SA and WA at least) Now the
opportunity for very significant savings and public benefit will be lost
if a national health record controlled by Govt is not created. The large
corporate groups will fill the void and we will pay dearly as a result.
R
David More wrote:
Hi All,
Good question!
They certainly have not saved any lives or money so far for the $100M
or so spent thus far that I have heard of!
Cheers
David
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On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 09:11:11 +1100, David Guest wrote:
Richard Hosking wrote:
They have not invested much by world standards in IT and arguably have
achieved reasonable returns. They could have done much better with a
more unified strategy and a more intelligent approach to standards and
IP issues. Still large IT projects have a high probability of
"failure" and HealthConnect was *big*
Good Richard
What do you see as their successes?
David
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