David More wrote:
Hi Oliver,
If you want to know how it can be done properly for ambulatory care (i.e. GP and
specialists) I suggest you browse www.cchit.org. They have it sorted for the US and it is
pretty impressive how they plan to move forward I reckon.
David,
Is is simply a matter that it's easier to do when the space is basically
empty? I understand that most primary care practitioners aren't
computerised in the US, unless something dramatic has happened very
lately, because of the high entry costs.
At least in Oz we have lots of GPs using systems, which could be moved
towards standards in a stepwise fashion if government had the will. The
last eight years of PIP and EPC have put some standard functionality in
clinical software, even if its only for trivial tasks. Most now accept
HL7 pathology results and a few can even do some useful things with them.
If DNIMP is funded by DoHA, we may have a standard data extraction tool
in most practices by the middle of next year.
Greg
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