This free event continues the work of the IPS-athon in December 2023 at Digital Health Week, when 140 people adapted the International Patient Summary (IPS) to the needs of e-patient Iosefa and our unique cultural and system settings in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Lifting health equity and continuity of care, our NZ Patient Summary will enable people to tell their own health story in digital form.
Symposium, 20 March: Digital health leaders in New Zealand, Australia and the Pacific will share the importance of standardisation with FHIRĀ®, SNOMED and IPS to digitalisation of our health system.
Connectathon, 21-22 March: Participants will choose from separate tracks to further develop and prove the NZPS FHIR specification, develop product integrations with our health identity APIs and medicines data repository, and build interactive applications with FHIR questionnaires. Thereās also an education track that will explore the FHIR NZ base.
This hands-on event is for health software developers, service designers, clinicians and anyone interested in health interoperability. We have experts leading each track, and all skill levels and job roles are welcome.
Rest assured, Rachael, the eventās not just for FHIR geeks - we need people such as yourself with a clinical and clinical informatics background to point things in the right direction. For instance, to ensure the NZ Patient Summary is designed to meet the needs of clinicians and consumers.
Day 1 of the Ring of FHIR Connectathon is underway in TÄmaki Makaurau - a super mix of standards geeks, HNZ - TWOers, industry partners, clinicians. @DanielThomson is leading the NZ Patient Summary track and weāre working from these materials:
Iād be interested to hear the conclusions! From both an ethical and clinical perspective, designing a high quality patient summary overview is one of the biggest and most underestimated challenges today imho.
It sounds good.
a news story will be on its way.