Under a three-year innovation partnership signed between Orion Health and Waitemata DHB, North Shore Hospital’s Special Care Baby Unit and Ward 10 (haematology) will become hubs for the development of new technology supporting healthcare delivery.
While telemedicine and health-related video conferencing is becoming more common in the country, there is still a significant degree of variation in adoption and delivery and quite a lot of under-utilisation.
The Health Management System Collaborative (HMSC), a partnership among seven district health boards to develop new clinical IT systems and to transform health service delivery, is officially dead.
Perpetuating the current health IT infrastructure does nothing to address the fundamental issues challenging the sector, says Bennett Medary, the CEO of IT service provider Simpl.
A proposal by seven district health boards to commission a shared patient administration information system (PAS) has come about without explicit central coordination, says Mid-central DHB chief executive Murray Georgel.