We were bribed. Simple maths. When at first you dont succeed to get practices to sign up voluntarily to HealtheLink, try, try, try again with....wait for it... $10,000!
$5,000 paid up front- the rest to follow after a certain amount of transactions (uploads). We decided not to join the trial 1/medtech cannot join in - yet 2/even with compliant software the best you can see is online viewing only, no downloading of your patient data is possible, no discharge summaries, no path, no xrays, no nothing. You give data to HealtheLink - but they won't give back. We would have preferred them to spend the money on enabling discharge summaries to come by the way of pit/HL7 downloads. (whatever the vehicle) Waste of money. The HealtheLink salesman kept phoning and begging us to join, every couple of weeks until I pointed out what WE really wanted. (electronic discharges) Practices were lured, bribed, harrassed. No thanks. felicity Goswell ---------------------------------------- >I could be wrong, but I believe they tried to get the participation of all vendors used by practices in the chosen region. >> Will GPs who are not using one of the packages favoured by >> NSW Health (other than Best Practice) therefore not be able >> to connect to the Healthelink system? Where is the equity in this? >Maybe you should contact NSW Health about exactly which vendors they approached, and which of those vendors chose not to participate (altho that could be commercially sensitive information). I don't think that any vendors were 'favoured' over others, tho, initially. _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
