I keep hearing echoes of the past. Colin Waywell who worked for BMDS, our
supplier for the Micros for GP scheme, pointed this out about 15 years ago.
He said that what we needed to do was to sell our data to health authorities
who needed accurate data to plan for the future!! We had many problems with
BMDS but in retrospect Colin talked a lot of sense - unfortunately he was a
bit ahead of his time.
Alan Black
-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Galloway <[log in to unmask]>
To: GP-UK <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 02 August 1998 13:43
Subject: The value of your hard drive
>How would people go about valuing the data on their practice hard drive ?
>
>It seems that PCGs are getting excited about data extraction so I was
>wondering what the going rate was for all the hours of professional time
>involved in compiling a good computer record.
>
>It occurs to me that one valuation would be a total of all the professional
>time inputting the data + a proportion of the overheads of the hardware,
>software support, insurance, cabling, training time etc. to keep the whole
>system ticking over.
>
>Say at £100/hour per partner 2 mins per consultation, 30 consultations day,
>that's £100/partner/day.
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>say around 20k per years data per partner
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>Plus your practice nurse and manager and admin time
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>I'd say the data on my hard drive represented about 150k of GP work
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>Now I know it's only worth what someone will pay for it, but I'm also sure
>that it's not going to be "extracted" for free!
>
>To my mind the better standard and quality of the data, the more it's
worth.
>If it is only noting a consult took place and prescriptions, you would
>reduce your vaulation.
>
>What do you think?
>
>Paul Galloway
>MedWeb UK Ltd. http://www.medweb.co.uk/
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