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From: "Oliver Frank" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "General Practice Computing Group Talk"
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Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2007 3:13 PM
Subject: Re: [GPCG_TALK] Spectrum Classic to Medical Director conversion
Andrew wrote:
Maybe accreditation could be useful after all.
Bit of a leap but could accreditation guidelines become a big stick to
bash software vendors over the head with.
It's not vendors that deserve the bash over the head it's the practitioners
who will commit their medical records to any system over which they don't
have adequate control. Rather like keeping your paper files in a cabinet
with only the cleaners having the key. Grounds for medical deregistration
in my opinion.
Buyers set the requirements ---vendors supply.
No safe product, then no purchase --or at least no dependence on the system
for adequate record keeping. Appropriate system selection is the
practitioner's responsibility.
IT advisers and govt funders who encourage negligent deployment may share
some of the culpability when the disasters start to strike.
David Rowed.
Mabye insist on a common format to export data from SQL as a standard
part of every new clinical package ?
Verified for compliance by some third party like higher reason ?
I have said it before and I'll say it again: a very simple way to
encourage use of computer systems that perform specified desired functions
would be to make the information management component of the PIP payments
payable to practices which are using computer software packages that are
able to export all data to a specified common format.
I still don't understand why this simple step has not been taken.
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Oliver Frank, general practitioner
255 North East Road, Hampstead Gardens, South Australia 5086
Phone 08 8261 1355 Fax 08 8266 5149 Mobile 0407 181 683
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