EMEDILAB - Interest Groups

Interest Groups

Hospitals

Hospitals will be able to measure the health gain provided by each clinician.
Hospitals will also be able to demonstrate the temporary reduction in functional health status caused by invasive diagnostic tests and major operative procedures by utilising the 'acute' form of the SF-36, thereby highlighting the major overlooked piece of evidence based medicine that hospitals 'first do harm' or cause health loss to achieve 'later health gain'.
The clinician’s awareness that their individual health gain is now being measured is predicted to cause an immediate change in behaviour toward avoiding high risk invasive procedures in high risk patients, saving millions of dollars in inappropriate admissions.
U.S.-style managed care organisations are already using these techniques and a failure of our hospital clinicians to measure health outcomes will put our equitable and caring Medicare fee-for-service system at risk.

GP Practices

Offers GPs most effective way to implement requirements of enhanced primary care items.
Offers the GP an opportunity to determine the functional health status of his/her practice as well as the functional health status of each patient
Provides a means of measuring patient satisfaction and improving patient retention
Delivers real time feed-back signaling the need for medical interventions
Enables the GP to practise preventive health and health promotion
Enables the GP to practise population health
Has the potential to increase GP’s income, morale and work satisfaction
Acts as a bulwark against Managed Care