We have Argus set up in our practice for correspondence.
If you use Argus for pathology as well, does your software put the file
into the correct folder ie pathology Inbox rather than correspondence inbox?
Our software Locum doesn't and the files all go to one folder. We also
have to massage the file and convert it to HTML so Locum Documents
section can see it.
If we need to use Argus for pathology as well, we would need two
installations.
Rgds to all
Michael Christie
Greg Twyford wrote:
> Oliver Frank wrote:
>
>> Dear Colleagues,
>>
>> I am pleased to report that I have now sent referrals to and been
>> receiving replies from two medical specialists via Argus, with more
>> about to start.
>>
>> To send my referrals, I write my referral letter as usual in my
>> clinical software, choose 'email' from the letter writer menu, Argus
>> Mail automatically encrypts it as an HL7 message, and away it goes.
>> No more phone call charges to fax it from the computer, nor costs of
>> printing and posting it, nor the costs of printing and giving it to
>> the patient. Hooray!
>>
>> The specialists' replies just appear in my clinical inbox, where I
>> read them like I do test results, mark them as read, and they are
>> filed away automatically into the patient's record, just like test
>> results. Our receptionists don't have to spend time opening
>> envelopes, stamping the letters as 'received', putting them into my
>> paper inbox and then scanning them, nor do they have to spend time
>> distributing and filing faxed letters (we receive faxed documents as
>> images attached to email messages, so they don't have to be printed
>> and scanned). In fact, our receptionists don't even need to know
>> that the specialists' letters via Argus have arrived. It's not that
>> we want to keep it secret from them, it's just that we don't want
>> their time being taken up with things that they really don't need to
>> deal with, and incoming specialists' letters is one of those things.
>> This is a really great saving of our receptionists' time and
>> therefore of our practice expenses.
>>
>> We are now about to move to the next stage. I am expecting during
>> this week to start receiving pathology results via Argus from
>> Clinpath, which is the Adelaide laboratory owned by Sonic
>> Healthcare. Once this starts, I will be able to start reducing the
>> number of result downloading clients on our server, by removing
>> Clinpath's own downloading software from it. Clinpath's and Sonic's
>> support for and use of Argus has led me to change to Clinpath as my
>> preferred pathology provider.
>>
>> I understand that Sonic has been supporting the development and
>> implementation of Argus for some time, and has been trying to get its
>> fellow pathology practices and also the medical imaging practices to
>> contribute to the costs of supporting Argus. I believe that to date
>> these others have not contributed, despite their interest in changing
>> to using Argus rather than continuing with the commercial messaging
>> systems that they are currently paying significant amounts to use.
>> Sonic is now feeling a bit lonely in paying to support Argus, which
>> will benefit everybody, while none of the other current and potential
>> beneficiaries have contributed.
>>
>> ArgusConnect and its current and potential sponsors need active
>> support now from users and potential users of Argus. When I told my
>> former preferred pathology provider (the State owned Institute of
>> Medical and Veterinary Science) that I was changing to Clinpath/Sonic
>> because Clinpath is supporting and using Argus, I received an
>> immediate strong reaction from IMVS. Clearly pathology and imaging
>> practices are very sensitive to anything that may influence their
>> market share.
>>
>> For those of us who have a choice in pathology and medical imaging
>> providers, our most powerful way of supporting Argus and helping to
>> increase its use is to choose to use the pathology and imaging
>> providers that are supporting and using Argus, and to make sure that
>> we tell those providers and their competitors why we are doing this.
>> We need to put our clinical practice where our mouth is, by showing
>> our pathology, imaging and medical specialist colleagues that we
>> regard improved electronic communication and the use of the available
>> open source not-for-profit Australian product as so important that it
>> influences our choice of provider. If we don't do this, we will have
>> only ourselves to blame if we find that we have to depend on
>> profit-making commercial messaging providers to send our clinical
>> messages.
>>
>>
>
> Oliver,
>
> This is great news. That someone has done the work to get GPs,
> pathologists and specialists in your area collaborating and using this
> is something everyone has been wanting to see happen for a couple of
> years [decades in some cases]. If more areas start to do it, this will
> take off.
>
> Argus is one key player in this space, while Medical Objects is
> another. There are also plenty of proprietary 3rd party technologies
> not initiated by GPs or specialists.
>
> In the case of Argus Top End Division was one prime mover. Buderim
> Gastroenterology in the other case of MO. Having Sonic on board is a
> result of them wanting to break-free of fee per message models.
>
> Greg
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