Now I see we recommend funding by NPS, HIC or somebody for drug interaction checks, etc. Are we asking for the easy way out and being too lazy to then look it up ourself like in the olden times ? One of the reasond EHR started was to make our life easier with all these checks etc. People now charge us for this luxury - is a big time saver, time is money - thus is money well spent. Yet we want it free and the tax payer must fund it.
As recent as 2 days ago I saw a patient: On a weekend went to an accredited practice because of his cough. No history of asthma & on no puffers. Left the surgery with prescription for an antibiotic and a Symbicort Turbihaler. The NPS, Medicare, etc. has spend millions educating about PBS, RB & Authorities. All good medical software displays these indications. Yet the GP's ignore these instructions displayed on their screen. Yet Doctors who are suppose to be the cream of intellegence never listens or reads - even if it is displayed in front of their eyes on a PC screen, otherwise how can some GP's prscribe drugs on the PBS if patients don't qualify ? This is not an isolated case. Not only myself, but a lot of other GP's find exactly the same on a very frequent bases. Maybe the practice uses a program that allows a prescription to be generated in a millisecond - like I see some people brag about. Once taxman pays for all our vital equipment, the Dentists, pharmacistys etc. will be next asking for their freebies as it is in national interest. Cedric -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dr. Ken Harvey Sent: Wednesday, 14 February 2007 5:04 AM To: General Practice Computing Group Talk Subject: Re: [GPCG_TALK] In quest of OS Medical Records for AU [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > But what about maintaining the various data sources for a software > suite? I am > thinking Medicare billing, drug data etc. Drug data, interaction checks, etc, could be contracted out to existing suppliers such as AMH, eTG, MIMS, possibly coordinated and funded by the NPS in the national interest. Cheers Ken -- Dr. Ken Harvey Adjunct Senior Research Fellow School of Public Health, La Trobe University http://www.medreach.com.au VOIP: +61 (03) 9029 0634; Mobile +61 (04) 1918 1910 _______________________________________________ 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
