Integrated Care Initiatives
- The National Health IT Board has a number of Integrated Care Initiatives within the Priority Programmes for 2011/12.
The eHealth vision for 'Shared Care' is about providing tools to enable this more integrated form of health planning to happen more easily and effectively. Shared care and care planning are clinical practices that currently exist in the health sector.
The Integrated Care initiatives include:
Shared Maternity Record of Care
The Shared Maternity Record of Care will introduce a new way for the maternity sector to share and transfer information during pregnancy and childbirth, and until the baby is six weeks old. Find out more...
Shared Care - Long-Term Conditions
Three pilots for people with long-term conditions are underway. They involve selected GP clinics, community pharmacies and hospitals across the Auckland, region. The pilots were launched in August 2011 and will run until December 2011. Find out more...
Shared Care Record View (eSCRV) project is taking place in the Canterbury region, for access to patients' records for the purposes of emergency care. Find out more...
More information about Shared Care is available in our Shared Care Paper - Enabling Integrated Health Care
Better Sooner More Convenient Primary Health Care is the Government's initiative to deliver a more personalised primary ehalth care system that provides services closer to home and makes Kiwis healthier.
Patients First initiatives - Patients First is a joint programme of work between The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners (RNZCGP) and General Practice New Zealand (GPNZ). Patients First is about integrating quality and information for primary care.
GP2GP delivers the capability to transfer a patient’s files electronically from one General Practice system to another, and allows an individual to transfer their record with them when changing General Practitioner or moving location within NZ. Find out more...
The PMS Requirements project was commissioned by the National health IT Board to define and prioritise desired clinical, functional and non-functional requirements required from a PMS, together with interoperability needs of a PMS within the broader eco-system.
Find out more about Patients First initatives.
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If you have any feedback or questions please email enquiries@ithealthboard.health.nz with the name of the project and your query. We will respond to you within 5 working days.
