I could hardly stop laughing when I read your posting. Boy, if you ever do decide to stop doing the Argus thing, you'll be in huge demand by the PR departments of the AWB and the Bush administration. Your ability to turn bad news into good is just stunning!
Lets bypass the 'insatiable demand for Argus services' stuff (even though its completely at odds with every report in the sector). Lets duck the 'barbed insults to your hard-working competitors' who charge for their services (as Government clearly, clearly wants us to do). Lets not dwell on the fact that Argus has been (until recently when understandably they've gotten cold feet) bankrolled by a large corporate that sits on your board. We'll let go all the rest of the hype and schmooze and the 'Dorothy Dix' question from Ollie but I have to ask.....
Why is it that all of the other parties in this space are now working on interconnection and (sensibly) supporting the direction set out by NEHTA and Argus is not? When Argus/Ross stould up at the recent HL7 web services workshop and calmly announced he is not in favour of service provider interconnection and instead wishes to lead off in his own direction there was audible laughter.
For Ross to calmly state that "All these jurisdictions accept our assurances that we will move to NeHTA compliance when that is fully articulated, but in the meantime they need to get on with it using a facility that is available and affordable"is side-splitting stuff.
NEHTA compliant approaches are there right now. The fact that "ArgusConnect"doesn't want to/is unable to deliver them should be widely understood. All the superb PR spin in the world wont save you from the consequences of your wish to avert NEHTA led collaborative development of standards and your quiet and lonely walk into the wilderness.
Can't wait for the next installment.
Regards,
Tom Bowden, CEO HealthLink
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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 24 Apr
2006 13:41:03 +1000
From: Ross Davey
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [GPCG_TALK] How is Argus
going after the apparent crisis
in
August 2005?
To: General Practice
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*Howz Argus going?*
Health
sector interest in Argus is growing more rapidly than ever before
and there
seems to be a market ‘buz’ that Argus is on the brink of
really taking
off.
More and more Divisions, driven by requests from their GP members,
are
mounting initiatives to encourage their specialist colleagues to
join
them and get connected to send reports to GPs securely via
Argus.
We now have deployment projects taking place in:
. Darwin and
northern NT
. Townsville area Qld
. Toowoomba area Qld
. Coffs Harbour
area NSW
. Nowra/Bowral/NSW South coast
.
Canberra/Queenbeyan/Merimbula/Cooma
. Griffith NSW
. Brighton area of
Melbourne
. Mornington Peninsular area Vic
. Bendigo/Castlemaine area
.
Hobart Tas
. NE Adelaide area
Message-types currently being utilized
in these settings are:
. Pathology reports to GPs
. Radiology reports to
GPs
. Hospital discharge/birth/death notifications to GPs
. Emergency Dept
encounter notes to GPs
. Notifications of infectious diseases to State
Health
. Specialists reports to GPs
. Adverse drug reaction reports to
TGA
. Care plans to care teams
. Allied Health provider reports to
GPs
. Aged care institution encounter notes to GPs
Despite NeHTAs
announcements about Web Services, Argus is still being
implemented by 5
State/Territory Health Departments for various
applications and we are the
messaging system of choice for 3 of the
current HealthConnect projects. All
these jurisdictions accept our
assurances that we will move to NeHTA
compliance when that is fully
articulated, but in the meantime they need to
get on with it using a
facility that is available and affordable.
We
now have 10 staff, and we are very proud of the fact that our Help
Desk
support guys continue to get flattering comments about their
skills,
user-focus and helpfulness. We also now have 43 Certified Argus
Installers
around Australia; these being IT people in Divisions, path
practices and
external IT consultants who have gone through our CAI
training course and are
now certified to have the skills to assist if
that is needed.
Argus is
starting to achieve that critical mass where the sector is
realizing that we
are viable, have a robust and quality product and are
succeeding. Above all,
they are now hearing our message that clinical
messaging is fundamental
infrastructure for health; not a profit-earning
opportunity for
entrepreneurs.
We are happy with progress but are impatient to do a lot
more.
-------------------------------
Ross
Davey
CEO
ArgusConnect Pty Ltd
Ph: 03 5335 2220
Mob: 0417
548608
Web:
www.argusconnect.com.au
-------------------------------
Oliver
wrote:
> Ross Davey wrote on 31/8/2005:
>
> The pronouncements
of NeHTA regarding messaging standards and "Web
> services' have severely
impacted the confidence of significant
> stakeholders in Argus such that
it now threatens Argus's future.
>
> Firstly AAPP, who were on the
brink of wholesale private pathology
> industry support of Argus, (because
it demonstrated the best opportunity
> to immediately start communicating
with GPs in a non-partisan manner),
> have backed-off and are reviewing
their support for Argus.
>
> ***
>
> Ian Cheong wrote to
this list on 1/9/2005:
>
> Since Argus has had significant public
funding,
> NeHTA should be pushing Argus and the single Commonwealth rep
on the
> NeHTA board has the power to do this if they so
desire.
>
> ***
>
> Ross, can you give us an update on
what has happened since early September with Argus?
>
>
>
Oliver Frank, general practitioner
> 255 North East Road, Hampstead
Gardens
> South Australia 5086
> Ph. 08 8261 1355 Fax 08 8266
5149
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