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GP BREAKFAST
Breakfast
More than 70 general practitioners met over a
seminar breakfast in late September to hear the
latest information about the implementation of the Federal
Government’s much-heralded Personally Controlled
Electronic Health Record (PCEHR).
While the AMA is supportive of patients having
responsibility for their own health, there remain issues about
how general practitioners should use PCEHR in their day-today
medicine.
Former AMA (WA) president Professor Bernard Pearn-
Rowe told the meeting about the best – and the worst – aspects
of the Government’s roll out of the program, but indicated
that everyone wanted it to work for the good of their patients.
The seminar also received a briefing from Melbourne GP
bites into the PCEHR
The debate about the Personally Controlled
Electronic Health Record rages on
and member of the Federal Government’s National Electronic
Health Transition Authority, Dr Nathan Pinskier.
Seminar participants were told that medical practices
would need to make significant capital investments and well
as time to make best use of PCEHR and that the AMA would
continue to push the government to recognise the impost of
the scheme on GOPs.
A vigorous Q&A session followed the presentations with a
volley of pertinent questions raised by attendees. AMA (WA)
Councillor and GP, Dr Steve Wilson asked attendees to take
their representative hats off and speak as GPs.
“I can see an awful lot of practices scrambling towards this
next year just to maintain getting e-PIP, which is substantial,
without decent knowledge of the pitfalls, the legal issues,
Informative: Dr Nathan Pinskier and Dr Bernard Pearn-Rowe
present their views on the e-health record.
AMA (WA) President Dr Richard Choong moderates at the
GP Breakfast.
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