It is interesting to see the debate here turning away from what is the technical architecture of systems for sharing information and e-referrals to discussions of the business driver.
We can all guess that e-referrals and e-prescribing will help patients, make for less work maintaining GP audit trails and add to efficiency of the front desk systems for path and radiology BUT the GP systems vendors and pathology/radiology/pharmacy vendors will only be convinced to play when GPs start asking for this. What is needed to motivate our colleagues and practice managers to take an interest and start pushing? It would be nice to see it happen BWR (before we retire) Regards Peter MacIsaac MacIsaac Informatics Consulting in Health Informatics, Terminology & Data management and Health Policy. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 0411403462 (mobile) 61611327 (office) peter_macisaac (skype) 8 Ewart St. Yarralumla 2600 "We trained hard, but it seemed every time we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganised. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganising, and a wonderful method it can be for creation the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation." - From Pertonii Arbitri AD 66, attributed to Gaius Petronus, a Roman General who later committed suicide. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ian Cheong Sent: Saturday, 13 May 2006 6:41 AM To: General Practice Computing Group Talk Subject: Re[4]: [GPCG_TALK] IHE and XDS - sharing of documents and At 10:55 pm +1000 12/5/06, Andrew McIntyre wrote: >Hello Hugh, > >You have hit the nail on the head. Apathy everywhere. Non standard >messages, applications unable to import standard messages, users happy >with the situation. That's why I suggested asking for standards based >ones and they insisting they are imported properly. >[...] No its not "apathy". It's "business". Compliance with annything imposed from outside cost money. Corporations tend not to do that unless it will lose them money by not. Presently, there is no loss. When there is legislation or regulation, corporations will jump hoops to comply fastest. The worst apathy is from the regulators, who keep thinking of excuses not to regulate. Would there be any opposition to legislation??? Probably not much I can think of. Interoperability stuff is in HIPAA legislation. A few years ago we were way ahead of the USA. Now, We could be left in the dust.... And nobody will ever know of the apathy that caused it. 20 years ago, Qld Health bureaucrats got rid of most of the medically qualified administrators in top positions. Now we see the fallout. Ian. -- Dr Ian R Cheong, BMedSc, FRACGP, GradDipCompSc, MBA(Exec) Health Informatics Consultant, Brisbane, Australia Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (for urgent matters, please send a copy to my practice email as well: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) PRIVACY NOTE I am happy for others to forward on email sent by me to public email lists. Please ask my permission first if you wish to forward private email to other parties. _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk -- Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.392 / Virus Database: 268.5.2/330 - Release Date: 3/05/2006 -- Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.392 / Virus Database: 268.5.2/330 - Release Date: 3/05/2006 _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
