At 2:24 pm +1000 11/7/06, Jon Patrick wrote:
A number of people have spoken to me about how getting outputs from clinical
information systems would improve the willingness/enthusiasm for GPs to use
computers more. Our own work focuses on the description of an information
system primarily based on the required analytics and not so much on the
perceived inputs.
Who believes that motivation to use computers would be improved if the
analytics available were more comprehensive?
I suspect not.
Only if the analytics helps them to make more money, which is seems
less likely to result from the clinical system and more likely to
result from the practice management system.
The answer might be different if there was an oversupply of doctors
who spent lots of time twiddling their thumbs looking for customers.
The only thing that will help us make more money is case finding for
EPC items and it seems presently likely that most/any presently
available system will do this (?) as is.
Ian.
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