This could be the issue that finally kills divisions - if they dont get
good takeup of such a program, govt will blame them. I doubt they will
have either the expertise or the money to persuade GPs. Still a national
deidentified dataset could be very valuable. You never know.
R
Wal Tracey wrote:
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/ <%00http://www.psa.org.au/>
http://www.guild.org.au/public/aboutguild.asp
<%00http://www.guild.org.au/public/aboutguild.asp>
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.
http://www.pencs.com.au/files/ADGPMediaReleaseforIMITProgram.pdf
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:
Would be curious if anyone knows for sure?
It certainly still appears valid.. as long as they
pay their fees before 14th march 2007 it will
continue to be valid. I would be interested in
actually reading the patent - the IP Australia
web site I got this information off doesn't seem
to let you click through to the actual patent
- I feel I'm missing out on my end of all
that valuable intellectual property that
drives innovation yada yada.. I mean that is
why we have patents isn't it?
Andrew
--->8----->8----->8------
Patent Application Type Standard Complete
Australian Application Number 2002242456 (42456/02)
PCT Number PCT/AU02/00299
WIPO Number WO2002/073456
Applicant The Pharmacy Guild of Australia Limited
Inventor Demirian, Vasken
Dibben, Philip
Sinclair, Trevor
Title Method and system for sharing personal health data
First IPC G06F 17/30 (2006.01)
Status Filed
Filing Date 14 March 2002
Date of Patent 14 March 2002
National Phase Date 13 October 2003
Earliest Priority Date 14 March 2001
Australian OPI Date 24 September 2002
OPI notified in Journal 20 March 2003
PCT OPI Date 19 September 2002
Under Opposition No
In Force To Date 14 March 2007
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