By maintaining accurate, consistent and current primary health data, it is possible to understand where gaps exist in the delivery of primary health care services, and where communities are in greater need of intervention services.
Australia’s primary care system delivers more than 400 million services a year, providing the frontline care every day for people across the country.
In order to ensure WA Primary Health Alliance can support projects that have the maximum impact and benefit for the community, we need to understand where gaps might exist in the services provided. It is also necessary to understand what impact services have on people’s health.
In the video below, Principal Advisor and Research Director, Dr Daniel Rock, explores the need and importance of quality primary care data. This video is a shortened version of the full length video available here.
In exchange for sharing de-identified practice data, we provide free licences for general practices for the CATPlus suite of applications by PenCS.
We are also providing training and support so you can use the tools to analyse your data, print patient worklists, identify cohorts of patients with specific conditions, track progress in achieving quality improvement goals, understand new business potential and get alerts for missing information at the point of patient contact.
WA Primary Health Alliance provides benchmarking reports to practices so you can see how you are tracking against similar practices, and we use the de-identified data as part of our population health planning.
CATPlus Training and Support
- Introduction to CATPlus(50 mins)
- Introduction to Topbar(43 mins)
- Data Cleaning(48 mins)
- Identifying Patient Eligible for Care Plans(43 mins)
- Chronic Diseases and Specific Conditions (Diabetes and Cancer Screening)(43 mins)
Other Useful Links
- Recipes for CAT4 and Topbar(this will help you get started)
- Software Compatibility Matrix for CAT4 and Topbar
- Data Mapping