Better Sooner More Convenient Primary Care - New Zealand Doctor
Better Sooner More Convenient Primary Care - New Zealand Doctor
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Appendix Fourteen: IFHCs – Information Technology<br />
1. Aspirational statement:<br />
Appropriate information and communication technology is in place that best progresses and<br />
supports the new models of care for West Coasters.<br />
2 Project overview<br />
One of the key elements of the West Coast Integrated Family Health Centre (IFHC) project is<br />
the electronic integration of health services, supporting an integrated model of service delivery<br />
across a range of geographically isolated service delivery locations.<br />
This plan proposes the development of an integrated health information strategy for all health<br />
providers on the West Coast, with the aim of ensuring that the right level of access to clinical<br />
information is available at each point of care encountered by patients, and that all appropriate<br />
clinical information follows the patient from carer to carer as they travel through a patient<br />
centred network of care, all in a way that minimises waste and duplication and whist<br />
safeguarding patient privacy.<br />
This plan will put the West Coast in a good position to adopt national initiatives as they become<br />
available, eg. a core set of personal health information available electronically to <strong>New</strong><br />
<strong>Zealand</strong>ers and their treatment providers, and electronic prescribing.<br />
3 Current situation / Problem definition<br />
Within primary/community care<br />
All but one of the West Coast‟s General Practices use the same patient management system<br />
(PMS) MedTech 32. Those practices that are owned by the West Coast District Health Board<br />
use the West Coast DHB PrISM system, which provides a single shared patient administration<br />
system but which has been configured in a way that restricts integration because of patient<br />
privacy concerns. A number of other services are available over the PrISM system (access to<br />
hospital health information systems on Health Views [such as discharge summaries, PACS<br />
radiology images, laboratory results], access to the DHB‟s library resources and online clinical<br />
databases, secure email, DHB intranet access). Two of the privately owned GP practices also<br />
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