GPRA Teams Up with MediRecords to Digitally Empower 20,000 GP Trainees across Australia

The partnership offers cloud-based practice management tools, early exposure to AI-driven care, and flexible digital solutions to support the next generation of GPs.

Recently, General Practice Registrars Australia (GPRA) joined hands with MediRecords to provide special discounts and access to a widely used clinical and practice management system (PMS) to its membership of about twenty thousand GP trainees.

Without on-site servers, MediRecords' entirely cloud-based PMS provides secure mobile access to patient records from anywhere. It may be integrated with other digital applications because of its API connectivity.

Through the use of a digital platform that supports flexible models of care and improves care delivery, the partnership seeks to help early-career GPs and RGs in future-proofing their practices.

A GPRA representative stated that members have been looking for different ways to provide care in a flexible manner, pointing out that technology will continue to have an impact on GP care delivery throughout Australia's diverse and expansive landscapes.

In a separate interview, Matthew Galetto, founder and CEO of MediRecords, explained that this partnership provides new physicians with early exposure to the digital underpinnings of current general practice, from AI-supported healthcare use cases to using standards like SNOMED and FHIR and understanding how mixed billing functions in the real world.

To address the growing shortage of healthcare workforce, MediRecords is looking into ways to expand its network with GPRA.

The Australian Digital Health Agency began working together with universities early this year to include digital health education in undergraduate health degrees in an effort to teach digital health consistently across the country in the face of ongoing workforce demands.

Outside of Australia, the Ministry of Health and Welfare in South Korea has funded top universities to offer specialized courses on AI in healthcare with the goal of producing more than 1,000 AI healthcare professionals by 2029, while New Zealand has started transferring AI scribes to emergency clinicians to free up their time.