I think we must all work on TMS ( Timely Machine readable Secure)
messaging becoming a "Quality" Issue.
If a practice manager or a hospital administrator is going to have a
poor mark on their CV because their specialists letters or discharge
summaries were not being sent electronically, - and the hospital got a
low mark in a Quality audit, - they would bully the IT guys to set up a
system, and they would bully the clinicians into using it.
We need to be nagging the Minister, and the Shadow Minister, and the
ACHS etc, into putting the use of secure messaging into their systems as
a performance indicator.
Greg Markey wrote:
Further to all that, it must be said that the present system works
very well, which makes it difficult to agitate for change. Most
people work on the mortein principle or that other one which says that
if the thing ain't broke then don't fix it. Our main problem is with
the hospital system which still works largely on late 19th to early
20th century communication principles. The Fliners Medical Centre is
trying to improve but with very little success so far. The local
hospital sends us about the third or fourth carbon copy of
hand-written notes which are usually indecipherable and quite
useless. Mention Argus to them and they think you're talkikng about
some newspaper somewhere. G
Oliver wrote:
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