Richard

There are significant financial advantages for radiology & pathology providers to have electronic referrals. saves them inputting data
On the other hand as Andrew Nolan wrote how else will the patients know where to go unless they have a piece of paper.

The solution is to print a piece of paper for the patient and mark it with your 'x'  and send an encrypted request form to the radiology/pathology provider at the same time  all in the one procedure. This is doable now with Argus as the request is really only a referral and the software providers would be able to implement this easily with a print & email option
1 Medicare have their pathetically insecure piece of paper with the doctors mark upon it  to satisfy their 'regulations' 
2 The patients have their piece of paper to stick on the fridge 
3 the radiology/pathology providers have saved a gazillion in inputting costs 
4 the GP does not have to use an individual certificate or card reader 

everybody happy - not likely - but it is a suggestion

on the subject of request forms we have reformatted printing  ( in Genie) to use A5 paper; half the paper used and saved a few more Tasmanian blue gums


Wal



On 06/03/2006, at 9:22 PM, Richard Hosking wrote:

AS I have said before - look at the workflow.
The patient is the messenger of the request - why send it separately via E mail?
If it arrives separately, the radiology practice now has to worry whether the pt will turn up.
They have the address and contact details on the form - indeed the forms are DESIGNED to be used this way.

R

Andrew Nolan wrote:


How else will patients know where to go unless they have a piece of paper? Although we receive results via HL7 and PIT, there appears no way to upload requests using the same technology.
I take it that the folks from doha are looking at slashing radiology.

On 06/03/2006, at 8:50 PM, Peter MacIsaac wrote:


    GPCG members,
         I would appreciate a little help. I am involved in a project
    looking at a range of issues around radiology referrals. I would
    intend passing on the report for comment when drafted.  However in
    the meanwhile there has  been a steady increase in the cost of
    radiology services over recent years.  We are looking for likely
    hypotheses from the coal face as to what  might explain this.
    Another glaringly obvious issue is the lack of electronic
    referrals to radiologists – we are not sure to what is the extent
    of computer generation of printed request forms, and there seems
    to be little electronic transfer occurring.
         Any ideas appreciated.  If people send them directly to me I will
    collate and return to the list for comment to reduce traffic.

     

    Regards
    Peter MacIsaac
    MacIsaac Informatics

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