Can anyone tell me where NZ is at with Office 365 and Teams? I heard rumours at HiNZ that it was imminent nationally.
I ask because I’ve just seen a presentation on Teams. It seems to have (or will have) some very impressive health-specific features including EPR integration and secure photos.
Hi Nathan
I use Office 365 and Teams with my Uni work but not clinically. I have found it/them confusing to use – the layout and access to files
is not intuitive. But the main issue I have found is sorting out where and how to use confidential documents with them – local, organisational or MS storage – it is easy to get confused with the location of the files and the synching (or not) of them to the
MS cloud. But maybe I just haven’t spent enough time learning how to use them….
Cheers Inga
Thanks Inga.
What the Microsoft guys in Leeds showed us yesterday (they are partnered with @richard.corbridge’s team) was a health-tailored version of Teams. It was very impressive, and covered all of the needs of a health messaging / collaboration / communication platform:
I suspect that this contained a certain amount of marketing wishful thinking, but boy it was impressive. I can think of 5 systems at our Trust which would be instantly made obsolete by this with a proper implementation. And it is rolled into Office 365.
Is anyone here cozy with Microsoft NZ??? Or know a CIO who particularly is?
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Hi Nathan. We have Jabber that will do the collaboration parts and just embedding wabalogic for images which includes a patient consent page and will attach the image to the patient’s record.
wow Ruth - So how visible to the rest of the team are these images? We have struggled with the same issue for many many years - still don’t have a working solution - so any extra info you have on how it works would be greatly appreciated - anybody you can put me in contact with?
This is Microsoft’s blurb about what they are doing with Teams and Office 365; I’d really like to see it used in ‘anger’ as it seems to tick all the boxes in my mind for a comprehensive clinical communications system. And is ‘included’.
The issue may be cloud based storage and where information is hosted (never mind the licensing costs… we are moving to windows 10 this year, what a mission!) and privacy regulations. I’ve heard really good things in regards to teams in other industries… Waikato invested with Cisco jabber some years ago and we are likely to continue to progress with their tools at least for now. Am interesting space.
As MS Teams has successfully campaigned to be adopted by alto of large organizations now (e.g., Universities, DHBs, accounting services, etc.), is anyone else struggling with the authentication processes when trying to get access across organisational MS Team groups, from the same computer or device?
I’ve wasted two days trying to figure it out . . . currently can only readily access my work-home MS Teams (Uni of Auckland), but now no longer can access (as guest) MS Teams for Uni of Otago (I could 2 months ago, now requires a passcode that doesn’t work despite successful installation of MS Authy on my phone, and it works to access my personal MS account + Uni MS account) . . . This is affecting my personal affairs, too, as no longer can access the MS Teams account I need to for accounting purposes (was fine last year, before Uni demanded I start using their Teams)! I’m sure it’s about licensing and MS hasn’t sorted out integration across databases . . . grrr.
For health, why not HFNZ (I’m biased 
)?