| Andrew et al Perhaps someone should ask Kate Carnell CEO of our very own ADGP who was a member of the board of the Pharmacy Guild & who no doubt seems to have strong contacts in Pharmacy as evidenced by the partnership she & the ADGP seem to be promoting eg the Memorandum of Understanding between ADGP & the Pharmacy Guild http://www.psa.org.au/ the above links explain the structure of the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia, which is the professional organisation for Pharmacists and the Pharmacy Guild of Australia which is, and always has been the business arm of the profession. Full membership of the Pharmacy Guild is only open to Pharmacists who own their own pharmacy. Last year I received a copy of a document titled THE IMPLEMENTATION OF GENERAL PRACTICE AND DIVISION PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT AND MEASUREMENT TOOLS WITHIN A NATIONAL E-HEALTH STRATEGY following is an extract ADGP, in partnership with the Adelaide Western Division of General Practice (AWDGP), the Top End Division of General Practice (TEDGP), Pen Computer Systems Pty Ltd (PCS), HESA and (probably) Cybertrust will collaborate to implement a national secure network. This “web-based” service establishes the technical basis for national general practice and divisions’ engagement in the E-health environment with particular emphasis Divisions’ requirements under Future Directions, Primary Health Care service delivery and population health reporting. The initial implementation has 3 interdependent components. A National “private” internet system (VPN) that will allow authorised GPs, practice staff, or Division network staff to access the network and view information within their delegation. Cybertrust is the agency that will probably host the programs and data servers. The ADGP will be the custodian of the de identified data on behalf of its membership. The appointment of skilled health informatics professionals to lead the understanding and implementation of national intranet deployed programs within the divisions. The provision of 2 information systems that will bring immediate benefits to interested general practices and to divisions faced with the challenges involved in implementing the Future Directions initiatives. The Practice Health Atlas The Practice Health Atlas, developed by the AWDGP, aims to inspire general practice teams to document their activities and to develop business models for more effective health care services and outcomes. It is based on the synthesis of relevant, high quality and timely practice health data, as well as using such data to predict future health care needs and trends. Data Aggregation tools These tools will assist GPs and divisions in the collection and review of National Performance Indicator information as required by the Future Directions Policy. This software system will provide simple procedures to allow GPs to examine their own practice indicators and provide secure carriage of agreed, de-identified data to the Divisions Intranet. This information can only be viewed by authorised persons. This Intranet could support other initiatives in time. Examples, without prejudice, could include support for Home Medicines Review, Electronic Clinical Decision Support, and tools to provide electronic support for team-based care planning. At the time this document was current I was the TEDGP GP Leader in IT and I was not privy to any of this planned activity. Pen Computer Systems very reluctantly spoke to me and the plan appeared to be that their software would be installed on GPs desktops and extract data for Divisions. This appears to be coming to fruition now with the ADGP roadshow led by Ms Carnell and pushing the concept of Divisions extracting prescribing data from participating GPs for use by Divisions to presumably extract more Commonwealth money. To summarize, we have an organization which attempted to hijack medical communications for their own pecuniary advantage, allied with an organization purporting to represent GPs but rarely if ever talking to them, trying to sell us the idea of handing over our patient data. Wal On 31/07/2006, at 3:27 PM, Andrew Patterson wrote:
Wal Tracey Norpalms 25 Barker Road Howard Springs Ph 08 89831416 Fx 08 89814752 email [EMAIL PROTECTED] |
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