G’day non-DHB colleagues (though, I’m actually GP working for a DHB operated practice!)-
I’m feeling jealous about not being able to meet up with you this week, but would love to know who all is non-DHB, working in the community (and working primarily in with a PMS, MedTech or otherwise) and how we build our conversation about the informatics in the community.
If you meet-up, please consider posting here thoughts about how to develop and further the informatics situation in the non-DHB space.
Hi @emily.gill
I have serious FOMO this week
I will be at HiNZ this year though!!
I am non-DHB working in community - working with Indici PMS - super interested in telehealth and also enabling information sharing for the benefit of patients
Yes please let’s keep the informatics in the Primary care space conversation going
Hi - I’m Gillian Robinson (RN, Lead Auditor) non-DHB working with aged care services throughout NZ. We use a PMS / EHR at the sites we work with so they can record all their resident care and service monitoring information in conjunction with their organisation quality and risk processes. There were quite a number of DHB representatives there today at the CiLN meeting so it’s nice to see other non-DHB personnel to add to the rich mix of view-points and experience. It would be great to hear your ideas around developing informatics in non-DHB space as well.
Hi, Emily,
A good meeting. Strong recommendation from Karl Cole and Martin Wilson that we should keep all the threads visible to all - Actually a good approach as the direction of the meeting was very much to keep things as they are while we refine and define our
purpose and the ‘how’
A key recommendation was to support the ‘awesome foursome’ (Karen Blake, Ruth Large, Nathan Kershaw and Rebecca McBeth) with a larger self-selected advisory group, helping to manage some of the work but also to help with deciding which issues to bring
back to the wider network for an opinion / decision vs deciding on behalf of.
The Purpose etc and the four topic areas were all worked on by the groups and are there for any further comment / editing.
Hopefully see you at HINZ anyway.
Cheers
Dr Bev Nicolls
Clinical Director Information Systems
Speaking from a Nelson Marlborough perspective - with a flavour of South Island wide - there are opportunities to be constructively systematic and opportunistic. Here’s what I mean:
GP PMS systems are one of the few IT systems to be integrated with Health One conferring both automated ‘proximity scanning’ (association of provider with patient) and contribution of data. This in addition to the access to the ‘Hospital / DHB’ record and interact with the Anthropometrics (growth chart) - tho we seldom do the latter!!
A number of NGOs are approaching me and asking about the capabilities of a GP PMS to use in their own right as a clinical record keeping and communication tool with great data-flow out of the back, especially suited to some of their reporting requirements as well as to provide patient care. There is the additional bonus of a patient portal though not sure how each GP PMS manages this if there are multiple provider organisations accessing the same patient portal.
IF a DHB led / supported implementation into NGO organisations logically selected one system, there could be opportunities to link provider organisations more directly and functionally - again this may be dependent on system choice.
So in summary, any new non-GP provider organisation like an NGO will benefit from a good IT system for their teams. In most NZ regions, those same GP PMS systems will also enable a shared view across the health system as well as contribution as they are already integrated. Some organisations who already have their own comprehensive system could choose to additionally use a GP PMS as an expedient measure if full integration looks like taking a longer time.
Hi Emily
I have been GP working in a DHB with Medtech Evolution. Also doing research with sharing health information, at present around elder care. Happy to chat.
Cheers Inga
