Better Sooner More Convenient Primary Care - New Zealand Doctor
Better Sooner More Convenient Primary Care - New Zealand Doctor
Better Sooner More Convenient Primary Care - New Zealand Doctor
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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