Oliver You wrote: "We we told that this was the case in the retail phamarcy software market, and that the pharmacists were benefiting from this".
Now this is utter bullsh*t. Most (if not all) pharmacy software does not indicate to pharmascist which medicines are RB. That is why a lot of pharmacists send patients back to GP telling patient to tell GP they can get for example Lactulose on PBS. Secondly my pharmacist next door to me, complained bitterly about his software support. He then upgraded to the new version of software only to find that after conversion, all old scripts are in a mess & impossible to do a search. He is still complaing. Cedric -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Oliver Frank Sent: Sunday, 25 February 2007 10:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; General Practice Computing Group Talk Subject: Re: [GPCG_TALK] Re: [Nat-Div] Accredited software Tim Churches wrote: >>The fact everyone is so worried about $28K shows we don't have a very >>serious, broad or >>deep indigenous Health IT industry - I am sure the price would not worry IBA, HCN and a >>few others. In fact I believe (and this may not be popular) that we would do much better >>with 4 or 5 large well resouced providers than the status quo. May be the service levels >>that people are complaining about could be improved. > The RACGP Computer Committee (as it was then known) was told back in about 1987 that the market for software in Australian general practice was big enough to support only three vendors each of whom could have enough users and therefore income and resources to develop, maintain and support a good product well. We we told that this was the case in the retail phamarcy software market, and that the pharmacists were benefiting from this. > > Don't look to the software vendors or the MSIA to push this along - > there is nothing in it for them. David More, whose motivation and initiative was it that led to the formation of CCHIT or to its being used to test software for American GPs? -- Oliver Frank, general practitioner 255 North East Road, Hampstead Gardens, South Australia 5086 Phone 08 8261 1355 Fax 08 8266 5149 Mobile 0407 181 683 _______________________________________________ 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
