Electronic Medication and Prescribing in Aotearoa New Zealand

Hi All

Integrating with NZePS for outpatient prescribing.

Like some other regions we created the ability to email prescriptions to community pharmacy directly from our Electronic Clinical Record (CWS*), based on the covid-19 waiver in April 2020.

For the last 4 months (since April 2022) Waikato have been integrated with NZePS for outpatient prescribing, and no longer dependent on covid-19 waiver.

About to start integrating electronic prescribing within our Discharge Summary also within CWS.

  • CWS (Clinical Workstation, formerly HealthViews before we bought the source code as the vendor made the product end of life.)

If you are considering developing your own integration:

  1. No you cannot have our developer(s)
  2. NZePS team at MoH are very approachable
  3. Toniq vendor also very approachable and helpful
  4. Waikato happy to share our experience of creating a solution.

Regards
Paul Docherty - Senior Analyst, CWS Dev Team, Information Services, Waikato Region
m021852019 paul.docherty@waikatodhb.health.nz

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