Gavan Lim-Joon wrote:
Your argument would support us all still using Vax VMS or Wang or
Solaris/Sparc, except that Intel architecture was far, far
cheaper, and we could all afford it.
Hi Greg,
The point I am trying to make is the correct application of resources to the
areas where it will benefit the most. I am not advocating standing still, I
am advocating change in the areas where there is the most to gain.
Gavin, its a market where products may compete in existing as well as
new arenas, as the buyers see fit.
Do mostof the GPs in this country already get pathology/radiology
electronically?
Yes, albeit via different providers and in slightly different flavours of
HL7, but the end result is that they receive timely electronic results that
integrate with most PIMs. Do we want to throw this out and redo it again?
Most DON'T receive HL7 results at this time, they mostly receive PIT.
Plus they are the passive recipients of the many solutions that the
results providers install on their systems or send them. And that market
needs rationalisation badly. Try to live with seven diallers on your
desktop. This arena isn't all sweetness and light.
If we did I think that vendors would benefit, the taxpayers would suffer,
and GPs will have to wait as the wheel is re-invented in a different way and
lessons are learnt all over again.
That's rubbish!
Surely putting those efforts and
resources towards discharge summaries, prescriptions, and other components
of EHRs in the area of non-electronic projects would be better?
No, these are different resources and if a vendor is smart their product
will work in both these spaces. Many don't, because HeSA PKI has been
ignored till recently, as it's irrelevant to results messaging.
Greg
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Canterbury Division of General Practice
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