Donovan Ross <[log in to unmask]> writes
>I would like to suggest that the demands for clinical information in
>acute medicine do not distort the overall demands on primary care.
There are demands for clinical information from clinicians working in
both the acute sector and primary care.
The work of providing good clinical information for others to use is one
of the cornerstones of good clinical practice, and as you imply, such
work does place demands on the clinicians.
The challenge now is to provide good clinical information, in an
electronic format, that is useful to the recipient. This may require
common formats, codes and message handling mechanisms, but above all it
requires the sender and recipient agreeing what is useful information to
convey.
This has to a great extent been the work of the Clinical Message
development groups, initially in pathology, radiology and discharge/out-
patient letters [they reported to the professions in December 1994], and
more recently in Cytology, A&E and contracting [work on-going].
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Jon Rogers Tel: 44 117 950 7100
Southmead Health Centre Fax: 44 117 944 5498
Bristol BS10 6DF UK e-mail: [log in to unmask]
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