We gratefully acknowledge funding by the Australian Government under the Quality Use of Pathology Program.
The development work has been greatly facilitated by the support of Mr Luc Betbeder-Matibet (Medicine IT Manager). We thank Mr Simon Winter (IT Coordinator for South Eastern Area Laboratory Services) for advice about the Common Investigations screen. Testing of early versions involved various colleagues and a group of senior UNSW medical students.
Case development for General Practice Registrars has been undertaken by Dr Anne Eastwood, Dr Geetha Kunjithapatham and Assoc Prof Rosa Canalese of GP Synergy, Sydney.
Case development for Advanced Trainees in Respiratory Medicine has been undertaken by members of the TSANZ Education and Training Subcommittee, namely Dr Ben Kwan, Dr Nick Wilsmore, Dr Jeremy Wrobel, Dr Belinda Miller and Assoc Prof Tara Mackenzie (Chair).
Collaboration with RCPA has been facilitated by Dr Wendy Pryor (Director, Education) who has also contributed to several other aspects of the project.
Access to the RANZCR Inside Radiology data has been facilitated by Ms Jane Grimm (Director, Quality Projects).
iNvestigate is based on a concept initially implemented by Prof Fred Dee of the University of Iowa. We thank Prof Dee for generously sharing his ideas, for providing the source material for the initial demonstration case from his LabCAPS site, and for testing the website at a late stage of development.