>Tassie's GPassist differs from my proposal which >is tailored to rural practice with a small local >hospital. The local hospital may be just an aged >care facility, but may also have some acute medical >beds, and would also be a base for patients to ring >or attend after hours to be assessed by the RNdiv1 >on duty (so patients would never to ring/contact the >rural GP directly). Then this rural hospital RN would >ring the "GPassist" GP rather than disturb the local GP.
My personal case doesn't illustrate as well as some others might but if we'd lived 50 minutes or 2 hrs away or longer, it would have been better to just roll up to the rural hospital and have it dealt with in the manner you describe for your proposal. Deloraine Hospital isn't exactly urban or even provincial. >My proposal provides much better support to rural GPs >(and is not really applicable to urban or provincial city >practice), and would benefit greatly from the rural hospitals >using EHRs which would allow the GPassist Dr access by >VPN in order to do all the necessary documentation (written >history, drug orders, IV orders, pathology and radiology >requests, referral correspondence etc.) - all whilst the local >rural GP sleeps. Do you envision one GPassist type dr per rural hospital or would one, or a couple possibly cover multiple hospitals? Good luck and then can we tackle the problem of not having rural GPs at all? Jan _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
