The Bettering the Evaluation and Care of Health (BEACH) program: where to from here?

Britt, Helena C; Miller, Graeme C

doi:10.5694/mja13.10460

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In reply: Weekes agrees that better health data standards are needed, and suggests that MedicineInsight can gather valid data from current general practice electronic health records, to provide meaningful information.

Family Medicine Research Centre, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW.

Correspondence: helena.britt@sydney.edu.au

Competing interests:

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