> -----Original Message----- > From: Greg Twyford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, 18 July 2006 2:22 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; General Practice Computing > Group Talk
> Oliver, > > I think that you are your colleagues proved that back in > 2002-03, when you took the HIC to task over it's very poor > first iteration of HIC Online. > > I don't believe that Medicare Australia would ever > acknowledge that they grudgingly changed the whole design of > the registration and billing processes under pressure from > mere GPs acting in concert, but those of us around at the > time, know it was the case. Yes, that was a good example of the tremendous power that the Internet gives us to communicate when we have something to say that we feel is important. I sent a message to the HIC with my concerns and told them that if they didn't act to improve the system to make it workable and reasonable, I would in eight weeks publicise my concerns very widely to the profession. From memory, I received no reply, so on a Sunday night, I emailed my message with my concerns to the GPCG chat list, the Nat-Div list and all 120 Divisions around Australia. I felt that it was important, in the interests of fairness and trying to minimise trouble, first to address the HIC privately as a "lone voice" to give the HIC a chance to address my concerns. I gave them what I thought was a reasonable time in which to reply. When they didn't, I did what I had warned them I would. I believe that they had no idea of how effectively it is possible to circulate a message like mine when we decide that that is what is needed. I think it was Horst Herb who said that he does not make threats or say that he will take some action unless he intends to carry it out. Oliver Frank, general practitioner 255 North East Road, Hampstead Gardens South Australia 5086 Ph. 08 8261 1355 Fax 08 8266 5149 _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
