The latest release of the Canning Tool is version 4.9 which adds Zedmed to the suite of clinical software applications the Canning Tool can extract from. There is also a new Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patient register that counts and displays all ATSI patients and identifies patients who have received an item 715 health check. PractiX users now have access to the APCC Diabetes measures. A new "Never had a Pap smear" indicator has been added to the Pap Smears report. The Seasonal Influenza Vaccination module has been significantly improved. A comprehensive list of all medical conditions extracted by the tool from all 7 clinical applications is now included in "Help". Numerous other new features and enhancements have also been added.
The major feature added to the previous version 4.8 gave MedTech32 practices access to the entire set of APCC measures, including the ability to upload to the APCC web portal.
The Canning Tool is FREE to all practices in any of the 85 divisions/GP networks across Australia that have purchased a licence for the tool. Please contact the developer, Ian Peters, for further information: extraction@canningdivision.com.au
Medical software applications currently used in general practice are excellent for data storage and retrieval on a patient by patient basis. However, most programmes have limited or difficult to use capabilities in regard to retrieval of data for the entire patient population. This makes them generally too difficult to use for systematic management of patients. For many years, Canning Division has attempted to get clinical software providers to include useful reporting facilities into their programmes. Unfortunately, this approach has proven to be unsuccessful.
As a result, the division decided to develop its own data extraction capability in early 2005. When the National Primary Care Collaboratives was launched in Australia in late 2005, the NPCC approached Canning Division with a request to develop a data extraction tool for the Collaboratives project. This was completed successfully within a very short timeframe. The tool extracted clinical data for patients with diabetes and coronary heart disease (CHD).
Canning Division now produces a range of tools which are capable of extracting data from a variety of the most commonly used GP desktop software (Medical Director 2, Medical Director 3, Best Practice, PractiX, MedTech32, Zedmed and Medical Spectrum Classic, with more to follow). 85 of the 110 Divisions of General Practice in Australia currently have a copy of the Canning Data Extraction Tool.
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Developer: Ian Peters
CANNING DATA EXTRACTION TOOL for DIVISION NPIs, APCC and NPS Prescribing Indicators v4.9 (Aug 2011)
CANNING DATA AGGREGATION TOOL FOR NPCC & NPI INDICATORS E-MAILED TO DIVISION v4.0 (Feb 11)
Click the top link above to download a demonstration version of the Canning Data Extraction Tool. The tool can run on Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 computers.
To install, double-click the downloaded file. This installation file will automatically install the tool in your Program Files folder and place an icon on your desktop.
To run the tool, double-click the desktop icon. From there, the tool features are all self-explanatory. The tool contains a good set of demonstration data from Medical Director 3. Click an application button, view the indicators, see the colourful graphs, view the patient lists and print or export the data. There are some instructions available under "Help" on the menu bar.
The e-mail feature allows you to e-mail the totals in the indicators to the division, where they can be imported by the Canning Data Aggregation Tool. This tool aggregates all of the indicators e-mailed to the division from the various practices, providing a simple report for your division’s NPI reporting. After the tool has been installed, you could even just phone the practice and ask them to start the tool and click the “Import & e-mail” button, which will import, process and e-mail the indicators to you automatically. Note that NO patient data of any kind leaves the practice. The full version of the Canning Data Aggregation Tool can be downloaded by clicking the second link above.
The patients included with the demonstration version are all dummy records from Medical Director 3. All features are available with the demo extraction tool except for the ability to extract data. The aggregation tool is the full version and contains dummy practice data until registered. If you have any questions, or would like to purchase the full version of the extraction tool, please contact Ian Peters via e-mail:
extraction@canningdivision.com.au or telephone 08 9458 0505. The package of both tools is available to divisions for $1500 (+GST). This fee permits a division to install the tool at no additional cost in any practice within the division's boundaries. There are no annual fees and telephone, e-mail and remote assistance support are included.
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