David - Thank you. I thought this might be the way but I agree the
problem then comes in the data entry. We have bid for a data entry
allowence under the commissioning bid to improve the quality of data
present on the GP systems. We still don't expect this to be adequate for
charging events etc. I now understand there are programs available to
analyse all provider produced data and match with name registers via the
Health Authority. This seem the most efficient way forward. Jeremy
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> From: c=gb;a=nhs;p=nhs national
> int;dda:[log in to unmask];
> Sent: 11 February 1998 14:09
> To: Gray, Jeremy
> Subject: Re: computing over different systems
>
> Jeremy,
>
> You can do it without replacing all the practices clinical systems.
> What
> you would do is to write (or use an existing) data extraction module
> and
> extract the data at night from each practice. You would then take
> these
> different extract files and load them into a central database where
> you
> could search the notes for things like your refferral read codes and
> produce a report. Other people do do things just like this.
>
> Existing extrcation routines I know about:
>
> EMIS - MIQUEST
> Meditel - DIN or IMS or MIQUEST
> Meditel System 6000 - could use reporting function
> Vamp - with Vision again you could use built-in reporting thing I
> think
>
> Other GP systems - I don't know.
>
> All in all, not an easy project, but definitely possible.
>
> Also I think your main problem would be the lack of the systematic and
> uniform recording of general practice data across each system house's
> implementation or by different GPs - do they all enter referrals in
> same
> way withsame code etc. etc..
>
> We'd do it for you for _70K!
>
> Hope it helps!
>
> Regards,
>
> David
>
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