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The awards are designed to promote and raise awareness of best practice in high-value healthcare and recognise the achievements of leaders, advocates and innovators in this field who have overcome barriers to deliver better care.
Primary Sense is a real-time de-identified data extraction, analysis, reporting and decision assist tool for general practice, developed and administered by Gold Coast Primary Health Network. The tool is installed in 79 practices on the Gold Coast and now covers 670,000 individual patients.
This toolset assists Gold Coast general practices to identify patients most at risk of poor health or disease, to provide targeted intervention and reduce their risk of becoming unwell or hospitalisation.
This includes patient-specific alerts in real-time to assist with medical prescribing. Examples including alerts when the patients’ blood test results indicate dangerously reduced kidney function, alerts when blood test monitoring is overdue and alerts when blood test results suggest there is over-treatment.
GPs say the software is important for assisting patient care and continuous quality improvement.
“It’s a quantum leap forward.” “We should be pushing proactive care not an audit and a recall list.”
Local GP, and GCPHN Board member, Dr Lisa Beecham, said Primary Sense was not only a data extraction tool, it but an IT tool that was built with the evidence base of the John Hopkins ACG tool which enables it to have accurate and meaningful risk stratification for general practice.
“This can be used to target care to each risk stratified group and easily identify missing evidenced based treatments and investigations at the point of seeing the patient via push notifications. (…) It will highlight missing evidenced based treatments or investigations and prompt the GP at the time of consults. This enables intention to treat or perform investigations into tangible outcomes for patients, their communities and the wider health system,” Dr Beecham said.
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