Primary Sense is a Primary Health Network (PHN) owned and operated population health management, clinical decision support and data extraction tool.  

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 general practices and Primary Health Networks (PHNs) with on-demand reporting to help with population health management.


Data security

Primary Sense has been built on the premise of security and safeguarding health information. It uses the highest level of data security available and stringent security policies and practices to extract, analyse and manage de-identified general practice data. This minimises the risk of data security breaches.

Data Sharing Agreements between each general practice and its PHN specify what data is being extracted and what purposes it can be used for.

Data is governed responsibly, privacy protected and securely stored and managed in Australia by the PHN-owned Primary Health Insights (PHI) hosting platform.The platform features multiple layers of security and a comprehensive governance framework. It complies with the Australian Privacy Principles and legislation.