One Good Community General Practice (OGC GP) Program recognises that general practice is the cornerstone of healthcare. At a glance:

Gippsland Primary Health Network (Gippsland PHN) is offering one-off grants up to $42,500 to eligible Gippsland general practices to establish sustainable models of care that produce positive health outcomes using digital health tools and technologies.

There are three levels of funding available under the OGC GP grants.
Applications must be submitted prior to 30 October 2020.

POLAR (POpulation Level Analysis and Reporting) is an ‘in practice’ software product for General Practitioners, Practice Managers and other staff to use within their practice to support internal operations, patient-centred care, quality improvement and business development. 

Find out how your practice could use POLAR to help improve patient and practitioner outcomes by visiting the Gippsland PHN POLAR GP webpage.

My Health Record provides a platform for a holistic approach, tailored advice and better care coordination. Its use supports healthcare teams in achieving a common goal, optimum health outcomes for patients especially those with chronic and complex medical conditions.

Find out more about how My Health Record can assist clinical decision-making and maintain relevant and up to date patient information by visiting the Gippsland PHN Digital My Health Record webpage.

HealthPathways Gippsland is an online portal, designed to be used by health professionals at the point of care. Each pathway is evidence-informed, reflecting local reality, and aims to preserve clinical autonomy and patient choice.

For information about how HealthPathways can support your practice Gippsland PHN HealthPathways webpage.

The Digital Health Guide provides high quality information about mobile health apps, including what capabilities they have, what conditions they are for, what evidence exists to support their claims, and reviews and ratings from health providers enabling provision of advice to patients about what solutions might be appropriate to support their care. 

To better understand how the Digital Health Guide can support patient care go to the Gippsland PHN Digital Health Guide webpage.

E-prescribing

Electronic prescriptions initiative is a key priority within the National Digital Health Strategy. Electronic prescriptions enable the prescribing, dispensing and claiming of medicines, without the need for a paper prescription. It is not mandatory, allowing prescribers and patients to choose either a paper or electronic prescription.

For a range of resources to support your practice visit Electronic Prescribing webpage or email Gippsland PHN.

Healthdirect Video Call Service is funded by the Commonwealth Department of Health. The platform combines the convenience and benefits of a telephone call with a face-to-face discussion using everyday smart devices (mobile phone, tablet, laptop or computer) and an internet connection.

To better understand how the Video Call Service can support patient care, go to our webpage or visit Healthdirect Video Call Service.

Secure messaging

Secure Messaging is a key priority within the National Digital Health Strategy and is a core foundational capability required to enable safe, secure, interoperable and confidential information sharing across all healthcare providers and consumers. Currently, there is a lack of a consistent approach to information exchange across the Australian health sector where it is not possible to send secure messaging from one product to another. 

To understand how your practice can introduce Secure Messaging visit Secure Messaging.

A series of Train IT Medical eLearning courses hosted on a unique online Learning Management System (LMS) available to support general practices deliver high quality clinical data and quality improvement processes in general practice.

For more information about eLearning Management System email Gippsland PHN.

Quality Improvement Toolkit

The Quality Improvement (QI) Toolkit is designed to help practices complete QI activities and develop systematic approaches to implementing change.

To find out more visit Practice Incentive Program and Quality Improvement Toolkit.

The Lifeguard software platform features a web portal and mobile app for health providers and a mobile app for patients, providing the infrastructure for health providers to maintain continuity of care of people isolated in their homes.

Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) of symptoms and vital signs for early indication of deterioration of condition between clinical patient encounters (due to COVID-19 and/or complex chronic conditions) can be monitored by a dedicated care team, located in a general practice. Condition-specific care pathways with defined clinical thresholds are created for patients by their General Practitioner. 

By leveraging condition-specific Digital Care Pathways patients can be virtually monitored. If a patient records data outside of the defined clinical thresholds, the care team will be alerted via the platform and action can be taken including contacting the patient (or carer) via telehealth, requesting an appointment with the general practice or directing the patient to urgent care services within a hospital.
 
This platform will enable general practices to easily monitor any deterioration of a patient’s health status in several patient’s condition at the same time and support their prioritisation based on acuity of condition for the best use of hospital resources, acting as a funnel into the hospital system, reducing the burden of inappropriate hospitalisation.

For more information about Lifeguard remote patient monitoring email Gippsland PHN.