The document discusses strategies for improving health informatics through quality data and electronic health records. It highlights the importance of collaboration and shared leadership among regional healthcare organizations to enhance patient care. Key areas of focus include the establishment of common systems, standardization, and effective communications to ensure timely and accessible healthcare information.

1. Health Informatics Improving and Exploiting Our Health Information HINZ 2008 Rotorua Central Region

2. Improving and Exploiting our Health Information What do we mean by Improving? Quality Data Timely Data Accessible Data Appropriate Data Available Data Complete Data Electronic Health Record + Whatever that may end up being delivered as.

3. Improving and Exploiting our Health Information What do we mean by Exploiting? Improving Patient Care Regional Clinical Services Plan

4. Improving and Exploiting our Health Information … a real commitment to collaboration through actions and investments, not just words. This is perhaps the greatest challenge we face, but also the one we can do most about through our collaborative leadership, communications and trust…… David Meates, RCSP Project Sponsor CEO Wairarapa DHB May 2008

5. Improving and Exploiting our Health Information ICT has been identified as both a Critical Issue and as an Enabler! So what are we (CIOs) doing to support this plan?

6. Improving and Exploiting our Health Information We need a vision Accurate, timely and relevant information delivered to the point of care and The ability to share planning, funding and administrative information

7. Improving and Exploiting our Health Information Eleven areas of work have been identified:- Electronic Health Record Appointments & Scheduling Common Patient Administration System Identity Management Communications Business Intelligence eReferrals & eDischarges Standardisation Clinical Portal Standardisation Common “Departmental” Systems Common Architecture Data Quality

8. Improving and Exploiting our Health Information What have we done so far? Communications Established a High Speed Data Network Initiated a project to enable Secure Video Conferencing

9. Improving and Exploiting our Health Information What have we done so far? Common Architecture HiQ has developed a toolkit (HealthBase) Adopted locally and regionally by all Central Region DHBs

10. Improving and Exploiting our Health Information What have we done so far? Common Departmental Systems Determined a regional preferred supplier of PACS Designed a Regional PACS Storage Facility Selected supplier

11. Improving and Exploiting our Health Information What have we done so far? Common Patient Administration System Three DHBs agreed to: Do not want another PAS but a holistic Health Management System Find a common supplier Determine and agree common processes Have one installation only Govern as equal partners

12. Improving and Exploiting our Health Information We need to take ownership

13. Improving and Exploiting our Health Information Don’t waste effort do it once and do it right

14. Improving and Exploiting our Health Information Do a bit of Planning