This appeared a few days ago.Are Sonic and Primary sitting on digital health progress?The wonders of modern digital connectivity are there for the taking, but there are elephants in the e-waiting roomBy Jeremy Knibbs 21 April 2017This is one of those stories that as a GP you won’t, on spec, be interested in. But only because you’ve never been told “what lies beneath” the story: the unnecessary, and potentially significant, retardation of better communication between the various important hubs of health information in this country, and therefore the slowing of delivery of much more efficient healthcare, via GPs, to their patients.Ask most GPs what they think of the big private pathology providers and your response will be usually be somewhere between indifferent to unusually positive. One GP we asked is literally thrilled with the new mobile results service that Sonic Healthcare now provides through its path labs. To GPs, path results arrive through their patient management system with...
This is the initial part of the post - read more by clicking on the title of the article. David.
from Australian Health Information Technology http://ift.tt/2qdD7OE
- TECHNOLOGY AND HEALTH
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