Maybe Molly should meet with and lobby the RACGP.
I attended the AGM today and gained the impression that informatics is
still regarded as too hard or to expensive to get re-engaged with.
I noticed that at last years convocation there were two motions urging
the college to convene further Computer Conferences and to take back
ownership of informatics in GP land.
In follow up Michael Kidd advised that
(a) informatics issues were being considered by the Quality and
standards committee (no dedicated IT committee exists)
(b) there was some ongoing work on a broader review of informatics
policy. (but the body language was not that of enthusiasm for change).
My own observation is that there has been a large change in the
sociology of the RACGP in a relatively short time. In the days of
smaller solo and partnership practices there would have been a larger
percentage of RACGP members who had a proprietorial interest in the
quality of their informatics systems, but now most members would have
little managerial power within the practices in which they work (and are
therefore somewhat insulated from the imperfections of the available
systems).
Tony
Tim Churches wrote:
Dr Molly Cheah, the President of the Primary Care Doctors Organisation
of Malaysia (PCDOM, see http://www.pcdom.org.my/ ) will be visiting
Sydney from 19th to 29th Oct 2006 and is interesting in meeting with
local GPs to discuss general practice issues in general, but also
general practice informatics issues in particular. Molly organised PCDOM
to self-fund the development of an open-source-based GP information
system and to establish an associated non-profit technical support
business, which has rolled out and supports the system in many practices
across Malaysia. As I have mentioned on this list previously, there is a
lot we could collectively learn from her.
If you interested in meeting Molly, please email her at
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - at this stage I have tentatively arranged to meet
with her on the morning of Fri 20th Oct but I am available to drive her
to a meeting anywhere in Sydney or environs that same afternoon, or
potentially on the weekend of 21-22 Oct or the following week (schedule
permitting).
Some sort of video conference or teleconference while she is in Oz might
also be possible (bandwidth might be better than from Malaysia, I
suspect), if people are interested.
She is also keen to discuss plans for workshops and sessions on primary
care informatics and open source informatics at MedInfo 2007, to be held
in Brisbane, um, in 2007.
Tim C
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