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4 Objectives:<br />

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To implement communications and information technology that facilitates integrated<br />

care for patients.<br />

To improve information flow between primary care, community nursing and allied health<br />

clinicians by all using the same electronic patient medical record.<br />

To improve information flows between primary and secondary care by establishing<br />

mechanisms for primary/community clinicians to view the hospital based electronic<br />

clinical medical record and vice versa.<br />

Adopt electronic prescribing.<br />

To increase the use of telemedicine for both outpatient appointments, and for seeking<br />

management advice from a distance (either real time or „store and forward‟).<br />

To enable and empower people in the community to obtain, process and understand the<br />

health information they need to make appropriate decisions about their health.<br />

To prepare local IT systems so that the West Coast in a good position to adopt national<br />

initiatives as they become available, eg. a core set of personal health information<br />

available electronically to <strong>New</strong> <strong>Zealand</strong>ers and their treatment providers, and electronic<br />

prescribing<br />

5 Benefits and gains<br />

Output measures<br />

Indicator Baseline Target – Yr 1 Year 2 Year 3<br />

High Definition Videoconferencing<br />

interconnects all West Coast<br />

IFHCs<br />

Shared Medical Telemetry System<br />

Medical Practices move to a shared<br />

Med Tech 32 Database system<br />

Standard<br />

Definition<br />

only<br />

CISCO<br />

Health<br />

Presence<br />

being<br />

trialled in<br />

Buller<br />

All West<br />

Coast DHB<br />

Practices<br />

share same<br />

system but<br />

independent<br />

practices<br />

maintain<br />

their own<br />

All<br />

videoconferenc<br />

e-ing equipment<br />

replaced with<br />

high definition<br />

equipment<br />

Options for an<br />

integrated<br />

medical<br />

telemetry<br />

network<br />

explored<br />

Move to shared<br />

Med Tech<br />

database<br />

explored in<br />

detail.<br />

Logistics of<br />

moving iSOFT<br />

Community<br />

Nursing<br />

Addition<br />

Videoconferencing<br />

equipment<br />

deployed in<br />

IFHCs<br />

Move to<br />

shared<br />

Medical<br />

Telemetry<br />

system.<br />

Move to<br />

shared Med<br />

Tech<br />

database and<br />

move iSOFT<br />

Community<br />

Nursing<br />

functions to<br />

Med Tech<br />

Business case appendices V12 AC 25Feb2010 Page 133

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