No GP is forced to use these programs. Any GP that needs a tool like this to search for patients that may now qualify for a tablet, must re-evaluate them self. Whenever a company approaches me, I always complain because the extraction tool usually only works for MD2. The reps. then tell me they'll pass my complaint on to head office that MD isn't the only software out there.
If it does happen to work on other software including mine, I always tell the rep. that I am aware of the new guidelines, and that I will use my program's own search facility to search for relevant information I need, if I haven't done so already. Thus I always decline these offers. If all GP's decline these extraction tools frm drug companies, the drug companies will get the message & stop making them. Cedric -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 13 July 2007 9:42 AM To: General Practice Computing Group Talk Subject: Re: [GPCG_TALK] BEACH thinks computers don't help GP quality The RN said that Pfizer thinks that many patients without high cholesterol are missing out on their statins because they are in the new qualifying risk groups which were announced at the beginning of the year. A whole new market - missed by uneducated GPs - Pfizer seeks to rectify this. fee >-- Original Message -- >Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 07:04:54 +1000 >From: David Guest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], > General Practice Computing Group Talk <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: [GPCG_TALK] BEACH thinks computers don't help GP quality >Reply-To: General Practice Computing Group Talk <[email protected]> > > >Oliver Frank wrote: >> David Guest wrote: >> >>> If this is true, it would be only the second time, as far as I am >>> aware, of HCN allowing hooks into their software. >> >> As Basil Fawlty said to the German guest who he thought was asking >> whether he had to supply his own food, "Not necessary!". >No Oliver. > >If I understand Fee correctly, you type 'Fra, Oli' in the patient >selection box and a message pops up saying "Give this patient Lipitor, >you loser", or words to that effect. > >So Pfizer is happy. HCN is happy. The patients aren't all that happy. >They think you are in the pocket of the druggies. The GPs aren't happy. >They didn't even get a free lunch out of it. The Feds aren't all that >happy because the bill for statins just doubled. > >The bottom line, however, is that death from heart disease is lower. So >it's all good. > >David >_______________________________________________ >Gpcg_talk mailing list >[email protected] >http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
