Forum: Posts Pre August 2004

Can anyone give advice on how practices can deal with patients who are in double blind research projects? I have a practice who have a number of patients involved in a trial comparing a placebo with...

My apologies if this is treading over old ground but on looking at the Logical Query Indicator Specification and Business Rules etc etc many items i.e. CHD 1a/2, LVD 2, Stroke 2, COPD 2, Cancer 1 and...

I've been attending Facilitators' Forums in York and Haydock and Dai Evans mentioned that the logical query specification was no longer the definitive list of read codes for recording data for the...

Dear all, Heard this morning that the NHSIA will cease to exist. Apparently it has been on the cards for some time but this is the first I have heard about it. My question therefore is where does...

I wonder if anyone can clarify just what QMAS will check with regard to hypertensives and their blood pressure. Q&O says quite clearly that BPs should have been done in the last 9 months. Does QMAS...

One of my practices has contacted Torex about installing Miquest on their Premiere system (as apparently they need this before they can get GMS manager to work properly). Torex, however, have...

I noted with some amusement that Healthysoft have wholeheartedly adopted Snomed CT for their HealthyGP system. Talk about history repeating itself!

Hi list members My PCT is currently going through a restructuring and I have just been offered a role as Information Officer but I was wondering if anyone or everyone could email an Information...

er ....alledgedly. The license for clinical system providers to use Read codes expires at the end of December, and the Jan 2006 release of Read will be the last. Or so I have read. So presumably...

Has anyone produced any guidance on what sort of medical record printout practices should provide from their clinical systems when a patient leaves the practice. We have been contacted by some of...

My line manager mentioned that there are some problems with contract manager and suggested I offered Rush for Practices to our Torex practice as an alternative. When I did this the practice manager...

I have had a request from one of our practices for a code for oversees visitors but I can't find one. They have sent me an email saying that the DOH have asked them for the following data which they...

Does anyone out there have instructions as to how I carry out a PRIMIS extraction on Torex Premiere system (not Synergy) the site have installed their upgrade for GMS Manager for Premiere NT (v...

Ok, very new to this and not a data expert. I need to work out a way of taking GP list data around obesity for all the practices in 2 PCTs. I will be wanting BMI, age, sex, possibly alcohol...

Hi I am a new Facilitator and am visiting a Torex 6000 site in a weeks time to run some MIQUEST queries. I understand that before I can run these queries, the practice needs to make a copy of its...

I was contacted by someone at Torex last week who told me that the new version of Miquest (v1.2.77) was shortly being released to Premiere practices. Does anyone know of a practice who's had it...

Hi, Does anyone know if it is possible to write macros in synergy similar to how you can in EMIS? so that clinicains can enter data at the touch of a button. Thanks Debbie

Hi As the QMAS software probably won't be available for all practices until later in the year, we've been asked to look at ways of pulling off data from Population Manager (EMIS), Contract Manager...

I have been asked by one of our PCTS to help with obtaining information for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome i.e. Myalgic Encephalomyelitis; how many people have been diagnosed with it (using read code F286)...

One of our practices would like to send their notes abroad (in encrypted form) to be summarised. The NHSIA have apparently approved this with suitable security safeguards etc. Has anyone done...

Looking at all the exclusion codes available at the moment in the LQS I am fairly happy with the use of most and and the need to review them within their respective time periods. I am however...