Queensland Australia claims online GP portal success story

 12-Dec-17, Healthcare IT

Queensland Health’s online patient information portal has led to more comprehensive and better coordinated care, saved GPs' time and attracted surprisingly low opt-out rates.

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The Viewer provides GPs with access to their patients' public hospital records and is already being billed as a success by the state government, with more than 1,550 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.

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