Electronic Oral Health Record
What is the project doing?
The Electronic Oral Health Record (EOHR) project is co-ordinating the sector's move to a common and standardised oral health system over the next five years. The project is also seeking the sector's advice on whether best outcomes would be achieved from a national or regional configuration.
Why is it being done?
The majority of District Health Boards and Maori oral health providers currently use Titanium (or its predecessor, EXact) from Spark. The Ministry of Defence and the teaching universities also use the system. Options for other oral health system in the NZ market are limited.
Providers currently using Titanium are on different versions, use different datasets, and have all created their own customisations, including reports. Oral health fits the category of a national specialty system under the National Health IT Plan; therefore a common platform is appropriate. Implementing a standardised version will provide capacity for common planning and enhance monitoring and review of public health service provision at local, regional and national levels. National reporting and extracts to the national collections will become simpler as a result.
The oral health sector and vendor are keen to consolidate versions which will streamline upgrades, improve maintenance, and support providers accessing information from one another providing information to the Ministry of Health.
What changes will be noticed?
- Providers currently using Titanium will need to upgrade their system and will see a change to the software user interface as a result of standardisation.
- Providers not using Titanium will need to change to it over the next five years.
- The sector will be able to share dental information and will gain from improved quality of data.
- Reducing customisation variations will make upgrading easier and will promote consistent processes across regions.
- Overall, the costs of running the system is likely to remain the same or similar but oral health staff will be familiar with the system at any site
- Reduced enhancement and report development costs to the sector by having only one version and a consistent set of data and business rules.
Project Phase
Scope and Design
Milestone Dates
Project Initiated 19 July 2010
Governance
EOHR Governance Group
Who is Involved
Business Owner: Nicola Hill, Senior Policy Advisor, Information Strategy Group, National Health Board
Project Manager: Paul Badco, National Programme Manager, Oral Health, Sector Capability & Innovation, Ministry of Health
Contact Us:
If you have any feedback or questions please email the project team on enquiries@ithealthboard.health.nz with the name of the project and your comments. We will respond to you within 5 working days.
