Surveying Health Down Under in New Zealand & Australia

re: Surveying Health Down Under in New Zealand & Australia

Chris Walmsley — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 02:06:31 GMT

HealthVault did come to mind Bill, but seems to be a concept that most people don't seem to be able to grab. If you are ever in Rotorua would be keen to connect. Our organisation has managed to move all of our member practices into a fully hosted infrastructure and we are working on a number of clinical projects using this platform, www.raphs.org.nz

re: Surveying Health Down Under in New Zealand & Australia

hlthblog — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 00:51:05 GMT

Thanks Chris and I completely agree that the citizen/patient needs to be at the center. That was very much a topic of discussion in my meetings with officials in New Zealand. In particular I advocated a model in which health data is aggregated around the patient with the patient in control of the data and who he or she wishes to share that data with - be it clinicians, caregivers, family members or others. It is the only scalable (and affordable) model that I've seen actually working in other countries. Microsoft HealthVault is one such example.

Bill Crounse, MD

re: Surveying Health Down Under in New Zealand & Australia

Chris Walmsley — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 20:29:41 GMT

With saturation of the EMR via PMS systems within NZ this is a good platform to build on connecting Health care providers together to share key patient vital information, build virtual clinical teams, monitor business financial health and research into workforce issues facing the sector. It is not however a platform that is useful to the patient in management of their health information or places it within an environment for them to share in a controlled manner. A common platform needs to be implemented to enable the multitude of health applications and devices to interact with users in an easy, seamless and beneficial way.