Burnout
Under-resourcing and a culmination of financial, legal, governmental and administrative pressures, means health practitioner burnout is becoming a critical issue in Australia. At a time when patients are in need of more care as the population ages, doctors are being asked to be more productive, work longer hours, and make faster, more accurate preventive care assessments. This is leading to more stress, and fewer doctors. At the same time, patients are demanding more information about their health on a device and with methods to best suit them. And this is important, as any doctor will note, since involving the patient in decision-making and arming them with appropriate information can lead to better treatment outcomes. There is also pressure to optimise health outcomes, to avoid doubling up, putting further pressure on an increasingly privatised health system, and ensuring accurate treatment is prescribed so as to avoid adverse medication interactions, and addiction issues. GPs and other specialists are crying out for a safe, secure, and up-to-date support solution to improve health outcomes.
Behind the Eight Ball
Despite continued efforts during the lockdown we are now behind the eight-ball.
COVID experience
Working in the current health crisis has forced me into telehealth and also online with Skype. At the same time being able to access the patients preventive care status in DCP has enabled a semblence of maintaining clinical goals for preventive care via electronically alleviating pain points in time constrained patient assessment.
Playing Around in PowerBI
Looking at practices with DCP as of today as an example
