Nah, Peter, as I said, I work in community health... which is no less a critical health service, I'd argue!
We are talking about different sorts of triage, I think you're thinking of acute. What I'm trying to say (and what the NBN page doesn't seem to get into) is that for many (most?) health services that arent based in an acute health service (ie, a hospital), triage is a reality. That's millions of Aussies every year, and millions and millions of health care records floating around. The IT infrastructure underpinning healthcare is actually pretty incredible. Now if I break a leg and my ambo cracks out an ipad to email the hospital, there'll be a woooorld of trouble
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Originally Posted by Peter Ward
Are you saying you'd email someone because a patient:
is likely to live, regardless of what care they receive
likely to die, regardless of what care they receive
or immediate care might make a positive difference in outcome ???
I suspect we are not talking about the same class of triage... |