Our division has been very active in this field over the last 10 years. We recently even had a meeting at our local hospital & invited all the specialists in private practice to attend. Had a fairly good attendance, but not as good as I had hoped. It is now 3 months later & none of these specialists has done anything about sending electronic letters. One has subsequently contacted our division & told us none of the GP's that refer to him has ever asked for electronic letters. Work in progress.
Cedric -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Greg Twyford Sent: Tuesday, 12 September 2006 9:27 AM To: General Practice Computing Group Talk Subject: Re: [GPCG_TALK] YADL 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 -- Greg Twyford Information Management & Technology Program Officer Canterbury Division of General Practice E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph.: 02 9787 9033 Fax: 02 9787 9200 PRIVATE & CONFIDENTIAL *********************************************************************** The information contained in this e-mail and their attached files, including replies and forwarded copies, are confidential and intended solely for the addressee(s) and may be legally privileged or prohibited from disclosure and unauthorised use. If you are not the intended recipient, any form of reproduction, dissemination, copying, disclosure, modification, distribution and/or publication or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance upon this message or its attachments is prohibited. All liability for viruses is excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law. *********************************************************************** _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
