How Primary Sense works
Primary Sense is a Primary Health Network owned and operated clinical decision support tool for general practice. It also helps with population management and extracts data to provide general practice staff with real time medication alerts, reports and patient care prompts.
Cloud-based
A cloud-based system communicates with desktop software installed on a GP’s computer and the practice’s servers.
The extractor is installed on the server of the practice. It extracts de-identified general practice data from a practice every three to five minutes.
Data extractor tool
Database
Data is securely transferred to a central database where analytics run over the data regularly. This process turns raw data into insights.
Data is presented back to GPs as reports, medical alerts or prompts either on demand or triggered during a patient visit.
Reports, alerts or prompts
PHNs
The data is also stored in highly secure data store and is only accessible to that practice’s PHN, where PHN staff can run further analysis to support quality improvement initiatives and inform population health research or plan and commission services, like mental health care, to improve community health.
Security
All data extracted from Primary Sense is privacy protected, securely stored in Primary Health Insights and managed in Australia.