Please would anyone interested reply to the following questions. I am
an SRN who is at the moment finishing a BSc.(Hons) Communication Systems
degree at Anglia University. My dissertation question is :
"How is Multimedia is being used in aiding the provision of healthcare"
I have been given the address of this list via a GP friend. I don't
wish to identify anyone, all answers will be in strictest confidence, I
would rather have your honest opinion.
Please would you reply to me individually and the only personal
information I would like is:
How long have you been in practice?
What type of practice is it, e.g. rural, semi-rural, town, major city.
1. Are you confident about using the existing computer facilities in
your surgery?
2. Is the existing computer system being used to its full extent, if not
why not?
3. Do you keep clinical information on your computer system?
4. What safeguards are in place to stop unauthorized access to patient
information within the practice and from outside (e.g. Computer
hackers)?
5. How would you feel about all practice and patient information being
kept on computer, the "paperless office"?
6. What information have you had on Telemedicine and where from?
7. Have you seen any Telemedicine in action, if so what was your
impression?
8. Would you consider using a teledermatology service that entailed you
taking a digital photo of a lesion and emailing it to a consultant or a
teleconference consultation?
9. How do you think your patients might feel about being treated via
"the telly"?
10. Do you think you and the patient would be as confident in the
diagnosis?
11. It is envisaged in the Government White Paper "The New NHS" that by
2002 all medical facilities will be connected by the NHSnet allowing
booking consultant appointments directly from your surgery and will make
possible such things as videoconferencing consultations.
i. Do you think this is likely to be a reality?
ii. Would you welcome it?
iii. What problems do you foresee for you and your patients?
If you have the time and inclination I would love to have your opinions
on how you see this lot happening from a personal point of view. At no
point will you be named (unless you wish to be). So far the main issues
seem to be who is going to pay? & Why can't we use the money to employ
more local specialists?- just to get you going!
Alyson
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