Healthbase | Brisbane Sth

Fred IT Group Victoria

The project aimed to provide a repository of medication prescribing and dispensing history for access by individuals and healthcare providers. The project aimed to deploy MedView to all pharmacies and GPs in the Geelong region and to a further 10% of this target market nationally. The project brought together a grouping of private sector eHealth vendors including FRED, eRx, Best Practice, Zedmed, iCare, Microsoft and SIMPL.

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Budget: 7.9 million
Patient Cohort	patients prescribed medications primarily in Geelong, Victoria
HealthCare Organisations	all pharmacies in Geelong region? General Practice Association of Geelong(GPAG) all GPs within the GPAG region Monash Uni. Fac. of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences Pharmacy Guild of Australia Pharmaceutical Society of Australia Barwon Health (Geelong Hospital) a residential aged care facility Australian Association of Practice Managers
IT Organisations	Fred IT Group eRx Script Exchange Best Practice Zedmed iCare Microsoft ? Simple Retail BOSSnet PHARMHOS Software
e-health infrastructure components	national eTP standards ?? national PCEHR standards ??? a PCEHR-conformant medications data repository ???
Project Statistics	target enrolment: ? catchment size: ~2,000,000 budget: $7.9M start date: ?
Outcomes and Reviews	No review documented Medview became basis for the National Prescription and Dispensing Repository (NRPD)