David Guest wrote:
I've often thought it would be useful for Divisions to locally survey
and webpublish the finding on GPs, specialists and allied health
providers communication preferences. Perhaps they should even hold a
meeting to discuss / review the options.
As it is everybody waits for someone local to do something. This results
in a lot of waiting.
David,
You are right. I've thought this for some time.
GP-specialist messaging won't get going till we know what people are
doing, thinking and want. Everything to date has been based on
assumptions or individual/small group initiatives. Some Divisions are
acting in the messaging space, and more are wanting to do so.
Divisions are creatures controlled by our funding sources, primarily
government. We do lots of things we are funded for directly, and some
that arise from our local priorities and creativity, or lack of it.
Pursuing government to fund us to do this stuff would be a great start,
as only so much will happen from minimal existing resources and
competition among our priorities.
Divisions are about to get turned on their heads in order to get
themselves the skilled staff to do data extraction, most likely using
third-party extraction tools, for our national performance indicators ~
HbA1C and smoking recorded for asthmatics ~ de-identified and aggregated
data by practice,to start with.
Some would say that this sort of stuff is long overdue and government is
providing some funding ADGP and SBOs, as well as consultants to set this
up. Divisions will have to reallocate funding,as no $$ have been
allocated to us, but most don't know this yet.
The good news may be a re-focus in Divisions across the board on IM/ICT
issues after a long funding-drought/sleep.
Greg
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Information Management & Technology Program Officer
Canterbury Division of General Practice
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