Ian Cheong wrote:
I presume that one has to nominate a proper prescribing package of some form - ie not just use a word processor or something in order for the govt to pay up.
As far as I know, practices don't have to declare which prescribing software package they are using when they are applying to join the PIP. This means they were not actually using prescribing software and instead writing prescriptions by hand (do you really believe that any practice at all has ever just typed prescriptions in a word processor?), they would be discovered only if and when any inspectors from Medicare looked at some of their prescriptions or visited the practice.
Note that according to the information that I quoted, we can not use *an* approved prescribing software package - it must be "THE standard approved prescribing software" - see below.
>> "Two of the associates are interested in clinical computing. There is >> a computer in each consulting room, and these are networked so that >> clinical records can be accessed from any room. All GPs use the >> standard approved prescribing software." -- Oliver Frank, general practitioner 255 North East Road, Hampstead Gardens, South Australia 5086 Phone 08 8261 1355 Fax 08 8266 5149 Mobile 0407 181 683 _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
