If none of you are aquainted with IT then go to a trusted consultant (A Risk springs to mind) or try contacting Peter Calcraft at
Agora Healthcare 0181 481 3706, they have an interesting product called MDIntranet which is free(the software etc) See
http://www.agorahealth.co.uk.
Stcik to your guns about who is paying, it is the HA/Govt. There is no business case for GP's to pay a penny. Ring me if you want to
chat about this, I am involved with Sheffield and Rotherham PCG's and have wrung a concession from both that they will have to get
the funding somehow. Doncaster HA IT dept also agreed when I said this at a larg meeting.
Trefor
Dr Trefor Roscoe
Beighton Health Centre
Queens Road, Beighton,
SHEFFIELD
Tel 0114 269 5061
Home 0114 251 0447
Fax 0114 251 0558
GP Tutor Informatics - N Trent
Member of the BHIA
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [log in to unmask]
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Laurie Slater
> Sent: 30 October 1998 20:24
> To: [log in to unmask] Ac. Uk
> Subject: PCG IT virgins
>
>
> Foolishly, (although I admit, not without a spark of enthusiasm)
> I find myself in the position of being an IT lead in our local
> PCG as well as being a "non techie" GP. This has forced me to
> come out of "lurk mode" and ask some serious (...ly dumb?)
> questions of you folk. You who appear to have grasped an
> understanding of GP computing which has always eluded me!
>
> How do you get 7 GP PCG board members (some of whom have intact
> floppy disk hymens) to communicate electronically? Is it:
>
> 1. Internet
> 2. Intranet
> 3. Extranet
> 4. Ether (intuitive approach)
> 5. Gentle foreplay
> 6. Don't know
> 7. Other
>
> We are talking about central London practices, so forget about
> high tech infrastructure with MIQUEST pulling off patient
> de-identified data from practice databases! I suspect that lots
> of the available local data is crumble if my practice is anything
> to go by )-: To boot, one of our local practices rang their
> help line to say that "the foot pedal didn't work" (yes .... it
> was the mouse!) so what hope there is, is limited!
>
> Ideally in the first instance we would want to start from stand
> alone PCs (at home or work) using simple secure email and the
> ability to download HSCs and the like from a central web site,
> with a forum for (threadable) discussion and virtual meetings
> (not real time).
>
> So tell me please... what connection (BT highway, telephone
> modem), what *net, what software (exchange, lotus, Outlook),
> what forum (MD Intranet, doctors org.uk). What cost?? Speak
> Ahmed - nothing too radical mind!
>
> Has anyone got any experience or advice about routes not to take?
> Whilst I may be able to get funding from my HA before April 99,
> the only medium on offer is practice based NHS net, the wisdom of
> which I am not sure. What are other PCGs doing?
>
> The grapevine tells me that our HA will making NHS net available
> to all interested practices in the new year at 100% reimbursement
> of hardware costs (and running costs too for a "yet to be
> determined" period"). Although I've heard some bad press to date,
> presumably with SMPT protocols the NHS net will become a little
> more flexible and could at least be made to work. I can quite
> understand that given their remit, no HA is about to fund an
> alternative. So should GPs hold out for something better (but
> what?) or go with the flow?
>
> Any thoughts?
>
>
>
>
> Laurie Slater
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>
>
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