Months of work to enable sending electronic discharge summaries from BOSSnet is now complete. Sending discharge summaries via Argus or auto fax is working as expected. Once electronic discharge summaries have been bedded down in Emergency, we will roll out this functionality to Inpatient and Outpatient communication. (more…)

BHS has started sending EDSs (electronic discharge summaries) from their Emergency Department. If your practice runs Argus, you can expect these to appear in your results inbox.

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Some practices are understandably upset that Argus will now cost them money. Not having Argus, however, might cost more. (more…)

We have begun testing electronic discharge summaries to two practices in Ballarat.  To date, the transmission appears to be going smoothly in this early stage of testing. (more…)

Version 5 of Argus is coming soon, and with it comes a new licence agreement. Historically, Argus was free for GPs and specialists to install and use. Not any more. (more…)

I was surprised to learn recently that some GPs and practice staff thought that BDDGP paid Argus to support general practice in the uptake of Argus. This has never been the case, nor has there ever been a financial relationship between ArgusConnect and BDDGP. (more…)

In a triumph of pragmatism over bureaucracy, Medicare have relaxed their rules on what constitutes a valid electronic referral. Referrals sent by Argus are now valid Medicare referrals.
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Talei Deacon, Practice Manager at UFS Medical Centre, won an Apple iPhone in the recent Argus special prize draw. (more…)

BHS are in the process of implementing the BOSSnet Digital Medical Record. A component of the system will be electronic discharge summaries via Argus secure messaging. (more…)

With Argus being used by more and more agencies, it’s important that all your GPs are listed with Argus, and GPs who have left are removed. (more…)

Did you know there’s an online list of everybody who has Argus? If you don’t know they’re on it, and they don’t know about you, you might be receiving paper unnecessarily. Time for a quick refresher.

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