Cedric Meyerowitz wrote:
Our division has done what you propose. We had an information evening at PoW hospital one evening. Every specialist in our area was invited to attend. Large number did not bother.
Cedric, were you or the Division really surprised at this?
The ones that did listened to various of GP's complaints / wish lists (incl. electronic messaging) & vice versa. It is now many months later. Success rate (ie. increased number of specialist using E-mail for correspondance)= 0% (zero %). Over the last 10 years I have asked, begged many specialists to use electrnic messaging.
It sounds as if you're in central Sydency. Specialists are competing with each other for your referrals. If you make it clear to each specialist that you will refer to him or her if he or she implements electronic clinical messaging (and stop referring if he or she doesn't), you may have better results. You may have seen my previous messages in which I circulated the text of the first two pages of every referral that I post, fax or send via the patient, which explains why we don't want paper coming into our practice, what electronic messaging is, why we prefer Argus and why we want the specialist to use it.
Some other areas (eg. St Vincents') has a much higher cooperation rate.
Have you found out what the Division, GPs or others in that area did differently from what your own Division did?
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