We have had a chat about how to structure the conversation a little bit (let us know if this is helpful or not):
News What has happened that we have seen in the past 2 weeks and what is happening in the next two weeks (news, papers published, events etc) - 10 mins
Five minute summaries of some innovation underway in the health system (no slides) - let us know if you want to join the list - 20mins
Mailbag - if you want to have a Q&A about specific things we can go find out - bring a person to talk about or talk with the question asker (10mins).
If you want talk about a project you are working on or have recently completed and/or have a question we can discuss (can’t guarantee we have the answers) then please message me.
This looks really good, Jon. I love the focus on conversation with the group that participates (one thing I personally find challenging with webinars), and the opportunity to ask questions.
We had news stories about Elon Musk, our recruitment plans, upcoming work at govtech lightning lab, the summer of tech intern program, a recent procurement seminar from NZRise and Mary mentioned our recently completed work on Digital Consent. We also gave a plug to Ben Reid who runs memia.com out of Otautahi Christchurch - his tech newsletter is great.
Fast Fives
Parag from ADHB talks about how they are doing work on robotic process automation at ADHB.
Jon talked about the recent vaccination certificate POC
Brett talked about our iwi affiliation work
Noel Paggao briefed us on 3d digital anatomy for patient ed:
Q&A/Mailbag
We then had some Q&A about procurement and the NZHIT report as well as the direction for innovation in the health system.
@parag - thanks for talking about the RPA stuff that you guys are doing. I was particularly interested in using the RPA for checking the Medical Council stuff. This is a widespread problem throughout NZ, and not limited to the medical profession.
When exploring the validation of doctors for joining Health Forum NZ back at the beginning, it rapidly became apparent that you could do it one of two ways, neither of which were practical for us:
Sign up to their service, which sends you a monthly .csv file which you can use whichever way you like
While I can see that RPA would solve the problem for your crew, it doesn’t fix the fundamental problem for everyone else. To achieve that, the MCNZ needs an API. Or if that is too hard for them, an RPA ‘middleman’ with API access would do the trick.
Is there a national and comprehensive solution via the Health Provider Index on the horizon?
@NathanK - from what I understand from @amscroggins is that there is HPD work in progress and:
"HPD scope absolutely includes maintenance of Registered Health Provider data including APC details. This product will receive updates from MOH and the registration authorities daily and be able to push out changes to consuming systems as well as providing an FHIR API to consume. "
If the target system can’t consume the API, then we can potentially look to rpa to do this and perform the update.
At the moment, you’re right, the RPA solution we’re building is very much tactical for ADHB HR. However, (1) the ADHB solution can be scaled for other DHBs or (2) the BluePrism RPA objects can be repurposed*. For Health Forum NZ, I’d need to investigate as the process flow will be different.
*so another DHB can configure a BluePrism RPA solution for themselves.
Please let me know if I haven’t answered your Q’s?
