GPRN

The General Practice Research Network (GPRN) is a national network of Australian clinicians participating in quality assurance and research activities through Medical Director. Each week the panel of participating GPs supply de-identified data that is used to support research and development in general practice.

With more than 990 GP’s contributing to prescribing data to create a longitudinal patient-based database containing over 24 million scripts, in excess of 25 million unique encounters for more than 2.7 million patients. 

HCN has an experienced analytical team dedicated to producing concise reports from data collected. GPRN provides the highest quality health information to government, academia and industry, helping to support: market planning and monitoring, product strategy development, product positioning, targeting and forecasting.

We work with various industry partners to extend our product offering namely:

“CAP+Rx” = Call Activity Performance

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• Call activity data analysed/profiled by
• Your target classifications/ influencers
• A sample of GPs’ prescribing against calls
• Sales data by brick

Some of GPRN’s well-known products include:

• ICS – Initiations, Continuations and Switch Report
• Switch To & Switch From Report
• GP Demographic Report
• Patient Demographic Report
• WAMTC Report – for pricing reimbursement
• Drug utilization in General Practice -  reports for pricing submissions for the pharmaceutical industry
• Longitudinal Studies for various therapeutic areas
• Tailor-made reports for weekly/monthly brand monitoring

• Monitor behavioural trends in General Practitioners prescribing
• Provide in depth market segmentation tools
• Deliver virtually "live to market” information
• Data collected
  • Doctor demographics
  • Patient demographics
  • Prescription
  • Reason for visit
  • Reason for prescription
  • Pathology and radiology requests
  • Clinical measurements ( e.g. height, weight, BP)
  • Data from other Medical Director patient management modules