Clinical Practice Software - Compatibility with APCC Program

We often receive calls for information about whether various common clinical practice software products (software) can report on the clinical measures (measures) required under the Collaborative Program. In response to such queries we have prepared this information sheet to assist current and potential participants of the APCC Program.

This information sheet sets out our current understanding of the ability of common software products to report the measures. We have prepared this information sheet based on feedback from participants in the APCC Program however, we have not conducted comprehensive testing on the software products ourselves. As such, the following is only a general guide and you should not rely on it as being complete, accurate or up to date. You should make your own enquires about the ability of any software product to report the measures with the relevant software vendor.

By providing this information sheet the APCC Program does not seek to endorse any particular software product or software upgrade.

Table 1 below lists software products which participants in the APCC Program report as having the ability (whether in built or through currently available upgrades) to report the CHD and Diabetes measures.

Table 2 below lists software products which are compatible with the APCC Data Extraction tool. This tool has been developed as a third party tool to report measures by interrogating the software.

The APCC Program acknowledges the efforts of software vendors, either in their early software design or subsequent work, to develop software that has the capacity to produce the required measures for the Australian Primary Care Collaboratives Program.

Table 1

Clinical Software Program*

Comments

Website link

Best Practice

Please contact Best Practice for a copy of the BP APCC extraction tool. You can also use the Canning NPI tool to extract APCC measures.

www.bpsoftware.com.au

Communicare

Communicare has produced a set of queries to pull out the APCC measures. Please contact them for instructions on installing the queries.

www.medisys.com.au

Ferret

Feedback from Ferret users indicate that the APCC measures can be collected with this program

www.pencs.com.au

Genie

Genie has an APCC report in its "Maintenance and Reports section". Genie users must be using ICPC coding for this to work correctly.

www.geniesolutions.com.au

Zedmed (formerly Medipak)

Zedmed have an APCC report that can be run from within the program.

www.zedmed.com.au
Medical Director 3 Included in the MD 3 Stats release - available now from the MD subscribers page. You can also use the Canning NPI tool to extract APCC measures. www.hcn.com.au/md3/

Medtech 32

Medtech has provided a set of queries and is currently endeavoring to do a more automated report . You can also use the Canning NPI tool to extract APCC measures.

www.mdtech.com.au

NxtHealth Practix (IBA Plexus)

NxtHealth's Practix has an APCC report. Users of Plexus will have to upgrade to Practix to access this report function. You can also use the Canning NPI tool to extract APCC measures.

www.nxthealth.com

 

*sorted alphabetically

Table 2

Clinical Software Program*

Comments

Medical Director 2

Use the APCC Data Extraction Tool to collect the required measures - please see your CDC. You can also use the Canning NPI tool to extract APCC measures.

Medical Spectrum Classic

Use the APCC Data Extraction Tool to collect the required measures - please see your CDC. You can also use the Canning NPI tool to extract APCC measures.

*sorted alphabetically

Software Vendors: please contact APCC if you would like information regarding the measures collected or if you consider any statement in this information sheet to be incorrect.