This appeared last week:
Connected wisdom: Queensland claims online GP portal success story
Lynne Minion | 12 Dec 2017
Queensland Health�s online patient information portal has led to more comprehensive and better coordinated care, saved GPs time otherwise wasted on paperwork, and attracted surprisingly low opt-out rates in the six months since its launch.
The Viewer provides general practitioners with access to their patients� public hospital records and is already being billed as a success by the state government, with more than 1550 GPs signed up and 35,800 interactions in the Health Provider Portal.
Queensland was the first state in Australia to roll-out a platform allowing GPs to access data from a number of its clinical systems, and feedback has been �very positive,� according to Deputy Director-General of Queensland Health�s Clinical Excellence Division Dr John Wakefield.
�GPs are particularly pleased with having faster access to information about their patients who are being or have been treated in public hospitals,� Wakefield told Healthcare IT News Australia.
�This improved sharing of information means the care provided to a patient by private and public clinicians is comprehensive and better coordinated. Doctors can devote more time to medical care and less time to searching for information and handling documents.�
The Viewer contains consolidated clinical information about patients who have received care at a Queensland Health facility, including pathology, radiology and pharmacy records, care plans and discharge summaries.
So far 149 patients have opted out of allowing GPs to access their records.
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It is hard to see a downside where people are providing consent and the GP is getting access to a broad range of information.
Well done Qld.
David
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