The benefits of participation would need a social marketing campaign. But GPs agree to participate in the CARDIAB programme, don't they? I think what I had in mind was a next generation platform for CARDIAB or something very like it.
Tim, Sorry, I wasn't really up on what CARDIAB did so I didn't immediately see the connection.. But you are right that it could be used to populate a fair bit of the chronic disease data. I'd still argue that consumers would want a bit more out of a PHR than that. What about an accurate up to date list of _all_ my medications? A record of _all_ my encounters with coded diagnoses? All my PSA results for the last 10 years. I don't think any of this information would be captured in any chronic disease program like CARDIAB (and also - I'm a healthy male - I don't think I'd be enrolled in a program like CARDIAB but I still might be interested in having a PHR). My GP is the one that has the master copy of all that information - I don't pay them enough to force them to type it in again into my PHR, I don't have the medical experience to enter it in myself accurately, and HCN has no interest in automating the whole process. I don't really see what the driver is that will change any of that.. Andrew _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
