This Really Looks Like A Good News Story For Queensland Health And Its Patients.

This appeared last week:Connected wisdom: Queensland claims online GP portal success storyLynne 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’ p ublic 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 clinica l 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... This is the initial part of the post - read more by clicking on the title of the article. David.
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