Hi
No end-user restriction as far as In Practice Systems (the company formerly
known as VAMP!) is concerned. I was involved with a project in the West
Midlands for collecting ethnicity information. For the pilot stage, I
created a Guideline for Vision which is now in the hands of the project team
and in wide usage and provided support in data extraction. Users of VAMP
Medical, our text-based product, will have this same template as a standard
Freehand screen when they install Version 6.2. In both cases the templates
are very easy to modify, but must have Read codes to be able to collect the
information you require. They can be transferred between practices
electronically, via a disk on VAMP Medical, or as an html file in Vision.
I'd like to think that both templates are very user-friendly!
Right from the beginning of this project we insisted that we would only want
to be involved if standard Read codes were used, this accounts for the delay
in our implementation. The project had an ultimate requirement to audit
across multiple suppliers, therefore Miquest seemed to be the obvious data
extraction tool, and that is based on Read codes. Some of the additional
codes required for the project were not released until q1/2000 - there are
twice-yearly releases named q1 and q3. However other codes were not
approved, e.g. codes for spoken language. This was at the time when CAMS
were still maintaining the Read dictionary - they identified a problem in
that the original language codes were under a hierarchy that had language
spoken as a synonym, therefore the existing codes may have been used to mean
either written or spoken (or both). This administration has now been
transferred to NHSIA and I am pleased to hear that there has been success in
providing codes for spoken lanaguage. As you can tell, however, the
development of the dictionary has been mainly based on requests to assist
projects and will undoubtedly have "holes" because of this.
Regards
Helen.
Helen Maguire
Business Development Consultant
In Practice Systems
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Subject: RE: Ethnic Monitoring in Primary Care
Hi All,
the Liverpool Ethnicity Profiling project had the same problem. Our clinical
system was Meditel which is a swine. The company were very unhelpful in
aiding us to create new codes and the system itself is very user unfreindly.
With the likes of EMIS it is easy to create a template to store information.
However with meditel this is also a long difficult process.
Now that the codes are being created and should be on all primary care
systems around april/may next year, we in Liverpool will have to focus on
the creation of templates to cover our medical systems. These are EMIS v4
and v5, Meditel, VAMP Clinical and Vision and Pentland. I don't know much
about pentland, but the creation of a template for the others should not be
a problem. In fact EMIS is quite easy.
I wonder what the copyright issues are with templates? I am thinking that if
we have them created in Liverpool can we export them across the country or
is there an end user restriction - Helen?
Ben Jones
Ben Jones
Heart Health Equality Worker
PCG Central West
0151 285 2283
>>> Mark R D Johnson <[log in to unmask]> 08/16/00 10:18pm >>>
don't want to hog this one, but yes. Brent did some, and Birmingham had a
pilot project - the evaluation was written up (by one of my former students)
(with whom I I still in touch) but nothing came of it - because of the
failure of VAMP etc to allocate a code/slot for the data, among other
things. I don't think much else has been done, but hope to learn more to
prove me wrong.
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