It Seems When Given The Choice Sensible Planners Move Away From Centralised National EHRs.

This appeared a few days ago.National Health Information Platform replaces Electronic Health RecordTuesday, 21 May 2019   eHealthNews.nz editor Rebecca McBeth The Ministry of Health is going to Cabinet this June to get approval to develop a detailed business case for a national Health Information Platform. The Ministry has moved away from the idea of building a single Electronic Health Record, towards developing a national HIP that will enable data about a single patient to be shared, says deputy director data and digital Shayne Hunter. Hunter was a keynote speaker at the Emerging Tech in Health conference in Christchurch on 21 May. “We are moving beyond the agenda of ‘we will drive for a single EHR in a physical sense’,” he told attendees.Rather, the Ministry is focusing on joining up data services to provide information about a patient via a national Health Information Platform.“This is intended to be not just a tec hnical platform, but a range of other components... This is the initial part of the post - read more by clicking on the title of the article. David.
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