Andrew Patterson wrote:
Once again, I think this discussion about de-identified data needs to be
watched closely. in many respcets it can't be useful to GPs if it is
de-identified, including to source, and even if the GP is identified,
he'll want to know who the problem patients are. The Adelaide West atlas
doesn't use de-identified data.
Greg, as I understand it, the data that the Atlas uses for its
funky graphs and maps is definately de-identified (from
a patient perspective).
Obviously the source is not de-identified - but that is
because each Atlas is done for a particular GP practice and
hence there is no doubt as to where the data came from!
Andrew,
So if the GP wanted to identify his non-compliant diabetics as a group,
the atlas wouldn't help? I must confess that I thought, based on the
published information about the atlas.
The following is an extract from information about it, which suggests
the sort of thing I've had in mind:
?Identifying diabetic patient cohorts (+/-co-morbidities)?
Exploring how a practice identifies and manages these patients
ie. Diagnosis coding, disease registers, outcome indicators
A GP can't search MD for patients with HbA1C > 7 and other relevant
measures. This is one thing we do with the identified data we hold in Argus.
As I said, too, I feel that identifying data by GP and sending it to
Canberra won't be acceptable to many GPs. Adelaide Western hasn't taken
the data beyond themselves.
Greg
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