David Guest wrote:
Greg Twyford wrote:
With Divisions needing to extract patient-level data over the next few
years to continue meeting our funding contract goals, this will become
an increasingly interesting area. Particularly if MS SQL becomes the
dominant database technology in the market place.
Third-party extraction tools for MD2/Spectrum Classic/FoxPro abound,
but MS SQL may give the vendors the whip-hand.
How do you store the data, Greg?
David
David,
We are focusing on diabetes at this stage and are using Cardiab with
Argus. We have a successful pilot and we are in the process of getting
more practices involved.
The previous manual processes with Cardiab were a nightmare but GPs
doing diabetes assessments in MD and receiving their results in HL7
format, which is available from most providers in Sydney now, have very
little extra to do. Patient consent is the only real extra task.
The tool that comes with MD works fine as long as jdk 1.1.3 libraries
are available [not installed] and the GP only needs to click on and Icon
and press a 'send' button when they have some reports to send. Argus
does the rest at both ends and we import into Cardiab at our end.
The initial bar is to be receiving results from 5% of our members. We
think we can manage this. We have a big Arabic and a significant
Polynesian population in our area, so diabetes is a huge issue. We have
some research statistics on the female Polynesian population in
particular that are very scary.
Getting our GPs to focus on this seems pretty worthwhile to us.
Greg
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