New Zealand Seems To Be Making Some Great Headway With A Simple Summary Record.

This appeared last week:HealthOne an e-health record for all?Liane [e-mail] 01 August 2017, 1:40PM The electronic shared health records system HealthOne is operating throughout the South Island as of today, with Nelson Marlborough DHB officially joining the system.

Now all DHBs in the South Island have access to HealthOne allowing general practice teams, hospital clinicians, pharmacists and a growing number of community providers access to shared information including test results, allergies, medications, previous hospital admissions and appointments and med ical imaging.

It’s a significant achievement given the Government has been grappling for years to try to establish a national electronic health record.

Southern DHB chief medical officer Nigel Millar told delegates at last week’s RNZCGP conference that HealthOne is not an electronic health r ecord, rather, it is a summary of patient information.

However, he later acknowledged in an interview...
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Source: Australian Health Information Technology - August 9, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David More MB PhD FACHI Source Type: blogs