Peter MacIsaac wrote:
I recently conducted a technical and business feasibility study with Paul
Clark under a Managed Health Network seeding grant on such an approach for a
common e-referral network covering pharmacy, radiology and pathology and
hospital discharge. This used a common infrastructure, with a service model
building on the IHE Cross Enterprise Document Share (XDS) infrastructure.
The intention is to have the infrastructure owned and governed by the
professions involved,
under an open source model?
purchased by the regional health provider group and
delivered by the private sector.
and variations thereof?
So if GPs are concerned that communication is happening in an ad hoc and
uncoordinated way at their regional level - then asking the local Division
of GPs to start a round table discussion with other health services may be a
place to start. There are emerging models and systems for this.
This seems doable Peter and probably the only sensible way forward. To
paraphrase a paraphrase, "Think global. Act local."
David
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