Primary Sense

Primary Sense

Primary Sense is a population health management, clinical decision support, and data extraction tool, helping GPs deliver the right care to patients at the right time. Designed by GPs, data experts and researchers, Primary Sense extracts de-identified general practice data and uses evidence-based algorithms to provide GPs with real-time medication alerts, reports, and patient-care prompts. It also provides practices and Primary Health Networks (PHNs) with on-demand reporting to help with population health management.

Benefits of Primary Sense for General Practice:

• includes the Johns Hopkins ACG® System – the world’s leading population health analytics software – that identifies high risk groups and predicts future health needs to improve a patient’s care plan
• is easy to use with most GPs and practice staff requiring little or no training to get started
• provides real-time medication safety alerts, patient-care prompts and near real-time data extractions
• provides on-demand reports to proactively plan care that can be used by GPs, Practice Managers and nurses
• is compatible with major practice clinical software systems, such as Medical Director and Best Practice
• is hosted in Primary Health Insights (PHI) with all extracted, de-identified data privacy protected, securely stored and managed in Australia.
• Primary Sense is 100% funded by PHN’s for General Practices to use at no cost

Primary Sense provides Western Queensland PHN with a coordinated approach to supporting primary care, enabling high‑quality data extraction, better identification of service needs, and significantly enhanced analytics capability.

For more information:

Visit the Primary Sense webpage http://www.primarysense.org.au

Contact your PHN Practice Support team  Prac_support@wqphn.com.au

PHASES with Primary Sense

PHASES (Preventing Heart Attacks and Stroke Events through Surveillance) is a statewide collaborative initiative of the 7 Queensland Primary Health Networks, Queensland Health and the Australian Government Department of Health, Disability and Ageing.  This initiative aims to reduce the burden of cardiovascular disease (CVD) by strengthening primary care in Queensland.

By leveraging the data analytics capability of Primary Sense, prevention efforts are strengthened, enabling a comprehensive review of patient needs at the point of care and giving general practice the opportunity to offer proactive guidance on lifestyle and behaviour modification alongside medication options.

The treatment of cardiovascular disease in primary care will subsequently improve long term health outcomes and reduce the demand and cost Queensland’s hospital and health services.

For more information https://phasesqld.com/