Greg You wrote: "If you cast your mind back to HIC Online, it was only when no-one wanted to use it that government thought about resourcing or involving Divisions. But it just got added to our responsibilities."
Now our devision was not involved in this at all because we were not asked. This is the 1st I hear that HICOL was added to divisions responsibilities ! I remember the scenario as follows. The majority of software companies refused to include HICOL without medicare providing them with funds as some claimed it is expensive to add it to their existing package. The uptake amongst GP's was also very low. Eventually the government agreed to pay the software developers to incorporate it, and gave a carrot to GP's to use it. Cedric ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------- -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Greg Twyford Sent: Wednesday, 7 March 2007 4:47 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; General Practice Computing Group Talk Subject: Re: [GPCG_TALK] Electronic Prescribing and Dispensing of Medicines Ross Davey wrote: > David > Infrastructure is needed if the model that the Govt and the pharmacy > Guild advocate is going to be used. ie a script must be posted > somewhere so that when a patient turns up at any chosen pharmacist, the > pharmacy system can go and pick up the script that the patient wants > filled. > > If your region is keen to get going with working on this as an > 'early-adopter', I suggest that you talk with Top End Division and NT > Health and see if you can tack onto the infrastructure that they are > implementing. > > regards Ross, I know Top End Division has secured some 'pilot' money for this. But given the number of un-funded government e-Health initiatives that Divisions are exposed to, I'd find it hard to recommend any Division without funds gets involved. The list seems to grow daily:- HIC Online - now Online claiming B4H GPs accessing their data from RACFILs Data extraction for our outcomes framework Secure messaging between hospitals, GPs and specialists Electronic prescribing transmission All very lovely, but where are the loaves and fishes that will allow Divisions to participate? If you cast your mind back to HIC Online, it was only when no-one wanted to use it that government thought about resourcing or involving Divisions. But it just got added to our responsibilities. The new project with the banks for direct patient billing is another story. B4H - no money at Division level, but now its shutting down anyway.. As for DNIMP, AGPN wants 1/2 a position per division from DoHA. I'm betting we won't get it and divisions will all have to make their own arrangements for their data collection for the framework by mid-2008. No one is officially saying that DNIMP won't get up, but the faces at AGPN looked pretty grim when asked if DoHA has made a decision. Aged care access by GPs to their databases is another example. A couple of divisions have funding for projects. Lots of others are playing at it with no resources and very few results. The nursing homes themselves mostly have no resources. My mum's NH has two shiny computers but they or their GPs don't know what to do with them. Ditto secure messaging. Hunter Urban has the resources to roll out Medical Objects. Most of the rest of us don't. It's all doable if the resources are there, but it won't happen by magic. Show me a pilot that has resulted in funds being made available so that the functionality and technology can be adopted across the board. The recent Alliance capacity survey showed that about half NSW divisions don't have any meaningful capacity in IM&T. Greg -- Greg Twyford Information Management & Technology Program Officer Canterbury Division of General Practice E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph.: 02 9787 9033 Fax: 02 9787 9200 PRIVATE & CONFIDENTIAL *********************************************************************** The information contained in this e-mail and their attached files, including replies and forwarded copies, are confidential and intended solely for the addressee(s) and may be legally privileged or prohibited from disclosure and unauthorised use. If you are not the intended recipient, any form of reproduction, dissemination, copying, disclosure, modification, distribution and/or publication or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance upon this message or its attachments is prohibited. All liability for viruses is excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law. *********************************************************************** _______________________________________________ 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
