The latest release of the Canning Tool is version 4.5 which includes the new APCC Prevention Measures, APCC COPD for PractiX and MedTech32, more Pap Smear data and greatly improved performance.
Please contact extraction@canningdivision.com.au to order
your copy.
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 data extraction 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 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 v4.5 (Jan 10)
CANNING DATA AGGREGATION TOOL FOR NPCC & NPI INDICATORS E-MAILED TO DIVISION v3.0 (Feb 09)
Click the top link above to download a demonstration version of the Canning Data Extraction Tool. The tool can extract data from Medical Director 2, Medical Director 3, Best Practice, PractiX, MedTech32 and Medical Spectrum Classic, running 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 2. 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 than NO patient data of any kind leaves the practice. A demonstration version of the Canning Data Aggregation Tool can be downloaded by clicking the second link above.
The patients included with the demonstration versions are all dummy records from Medical Director. All features are available with the demo tools except for the importation of data and e-mailing. If you have any questions, or would like to purchase the full versions, please contact Ian Peters via:
extraction@canningdivision.com.au or phone 08 9458 0505. The package of both tools costs $1500 (+GST), or $750 (+GST) if upgrading from v3.x.
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