The WA Primary Health Alliance (WAPHA) has applied for an exemption to competition rules to develop and roll out a new GP data extraction tool and supply it to other Primary Health Networks (PHNs), in a move opposed by the medical software industry’s peak body.

The PHNs are planning to develop a new tool called Primary Sense 2, building on the existing Primary Sense tool developed by the Gold Coast PHN, which performs a similar function as Pen CS’s Cat4 and Topbar and Outcome Health’s POLAR tool for extracting data for programs such as the quality improvement practice incentive (PIP QI).