Many thanks for informing us of this, Ross, and for your efforts. Possibly the only thing on the AGPN (formerly ADGP) agenda at the moment is self-preservation ... They are in danger of extinction due to general uselessness and irrelevance.
The appropriate political pathway would be: 1) A local GP (such as myself) alerts the local Division CEO and Board of Mangement of the problem/ need. 2) The local Division endorses the problem/ need/ plan of action, and the local GP alerts his local Federal MP of the problem, and that this has the endorsement of the local Division. 3) The local MP alerts the Federal Health Minister (Tony). The outcome of this is likely to be that some useless advisor will write back saying that they have NeHTA overseeing the implementation of eHealth in Oz. And that is where things will stall - with NeHTA, until someone with a bit of action can accidentally find their way into the inner sanctum of NeHTA. I'll do my best with 1) and 2) above, Ross. John Mac > Ross Davey wrote: >Sorry, my post had wrong SUBJECT. Inadvertently copied from a past email >-------------------------------------- >Dear list members >On Friday I had a meeting with Kate Carnell of AGPN to brief her on our >views on the need for interoperability between messaging service >providers, and how important an issue this is becoming for General Practice. > >I provided a short briefing on ArgusConnect's views on how >implementation of Web Services can open up this sector and enable full >interoperability of messaging between all messaging facilities. It >would also rationalise the need for multiple 'messaging clients' >required to be operating on each GP practice desktop, so that >potentially GPs might only need one that would be open source, open >standards, using a common set of web services and accessible by all. > >I was surprised to be informed that although Kate understands and >acknowledges the problem, AGPN has not received any significant call >from General Practice through Divisions to solve this problem, so it >seems this issue is not currently on the AGPN radar. > >I think her words were something like "AGPN has not received any call >from Divisions to sole either the problem of needing multiple messaging >client software on their desktop, or the need to soleve the >interoperability problem. Hence AGPN is not being pushed to help >resolve these issues". "The only discussion on this issue has come from >a small number of enthusiasts on the GPCG listserver". > >What are your views on these related issues? Should AGPN be made more >aware so that it is on their radar? > >regards >Ross Davey > > >-------------------------------------------- > >Ross Davey >CEO >ArgusConnect >Ph: 03 5335 2220 >Mob: 0417 548608 >Web: www.argusconnect.com.au > >-------------------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
