The CARDIAB Alliance was formed in 1999 and is a collaboration of the Macarthur Division of General Practice, The Heart Foundation, the Centre for GP Integration Studies (University of NSW), Intouch Consultancy and The Pharmaceutical Alliance. The CARDIAB Alliance was formed to develop an innovative integrated database which gives specific support to GPs managing patients with diabetes and cardiovascular disease (CVD). It provides a patient recall system, information on risk factor levels and management practices, and profiles on high risk patients. It was designed to make program reporting and evaluation easier and was originally developed as a service to GP members for registration and recall and initiated by Divisions of General Practice to support the National Integrated Diabetes program - division level data is necessary for a population health focus, national monitoring, Division level Quality Assurance, service planning and program evaluation

What the system offers:

• ease of data entry
• the capacity to register women with Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM) and provide annual recall for diabetes screening
• sample template forms (facilitates data collection for GPs)
• recall system that informs GPs which patients need to be seen and the reasons for the review
• the generation of specific program reports (for overall program or GP specific)
• the flexibility to access information required, and the ability to export data to statistical packages
• the opportunity to compare aggregated data on CVD or Diabetes program outcomes with other Divisions who run similar programs
  

 For more information on CARDIAB www.intouch.com.au/cardiab