David Guest wrote:
It's a dog eat dog world out there.
Of course the Feds could take a leaf out of their own book
(http://www.adgp.com.au/client_images/104183.pdf)
"Budget summary
Investment of $947.1 million over four years to tackle the growing
burden of disease and improve the delivery of health and medical
services to those people in need.
Chronic and complex conditions – supporting patient care $291.3million
snip
* $34.6 million to allow an additional 800 general practices to
participate in the Australian Primary Care Collaboratives program
(to 1200 practices participating)."
snip
Oliver, as you more than most will be aware, coopetition
(http://www.worldwidewords.org/turnsofphrase/tp-coo2.htm) is all the
rage these days in medical circles. This is reportedly working well in
the NHS in the UK (the one true bastion of capitalism) where significant
improvements in health care management are taking place. They have
succeeded in taking the lessons of Edward Deming and the American
quality improvement gurus and applied them to health care. This process
has largely been a failure in the US where small government and larger
medical conglomerates are loathe to divulge their internal business
practices. Australian medical practice sits somewhere between the Scylla
of laissez-faire medical care and the Charybdis of total government
control and the Feds are willing to give coopetition a run.
Perhaps once NEHTA gets out of the road, the Feds can sit down with the
MSIA and see what might be achieved. (A common data format / exchange???)
David
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