I worked for one of those NESB etc... He's got a point, never breaks down, never loses data, pen and paper setup reconfigurable and reprogrammable the way he likes it .. as long as he is solo, no real need. Basically,and if he also looked up drug interactions in the AMH (which unfortunately, he didn't) , he would be upto par or excelling ( we computerized folk are dependent on the rather opaque interaction checking of our software, unless we engage in AMH pulling out behaviour).
On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 14:50 +1000, Greg Twyford wrote: > Cedric Meyerowitz wrote: > > We have to supply de-identified diabetes and asthma data from practices from > > a % of our > > members by mid-2008, with the prospect of this ramping up over time. > > Most NSW Divisions don't have IM&T capacity any longer. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Greg > > How are you going to force, bribe your members to give you these figures ?? > > > > Cedric > > Cedric, > > No force, maybe subtle bribes through long-term relationship building, > being helpful to them whenever possible, the same as divisions do with > everything that they encourage their members to participate in that is > requested by government, the college and other bodies that want GPs to > do new things with a population health or risk-management basis. > > Practice computing is a good example. We had 9 clinical computer users > back in 1999, and between the PIP, though lots of computerised practices > aren't PIP registered, though probably the majority are plus training > and support, we're now at around 140 GPs using clinical computing. Still > low by many divisions'stndards but we have lots of solo, bulk-billing > overseas trained from NESB and non-European backgrounds, so their are > lots of hurdles to overcome. > > Just a pity that the PIP had stagnated for so long and didn't encourage > GPs to do more things. That was left to our training, without other > incentives, and things like the pathology companies offering to install > messaging for results for free. > > You should volunteer to give your de-identified data to your Division, > Cedric. > > Greg _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
