Regional Clinical Workstation (CWS) and Clinical Data Repository (CDR)
What is the project doing?
The Northern, Midland, Central and Southern Regions are all developing Regional IT Implementation Plans. The plans will outline the priorities and implementation schedule for systems selected to deliver on Phase 1 of the National Health IT Plan.
Phase One calls for the implementation of a common platform for clinical systems across each region. Fundamental to this is a clinical workstation (CWS), and a centralised data repository (CDR) that will contain a nationally agreed core set of clinical information, and additional clinical data to be determined by each region. The CWS is a web based portal which draws information from multiple sources and presents it in the context of the patient’s record. All regions have agreed to implement Concerto as their clinical workstation, and this will be further standardised nationally by configuring a common patient banner, and document display categories.
The regional CWS and CDRs will be phased over time and become a single instance in each region.
- Northern: Éclair/Testsafe
- Midland: To be agreed
- Central: Orion CDR
- Southern: Éclair/Testsafe South
Why is it being done?
Currently all District Health Boards operate individual clinical systems to store information about patients. The variety of these systems makes it harder to share information and to introduce common standards.
Implementing similar systems will make it easier to share information when someone moves between DHBs for treatment. It will reduce training requirements for clinicians who work in different locations as the systems will be familiar.
Having a single instance of the core systems across each region will mean all the DHBs will be on the same version, reducing the cost and effort of upgrades for the DHBs and the system vendors.
The regional CDRs will provide the foundation for a national view of a patient’s core health record and will allow a patient’s record to be accessible outside the region. It will also provide the basis for national views of clinical data that can be used for the purposes of knowledge management, research and health planning.
What change will be noticed?
- All hospital clinicians, and community providers with access, will view patient information (from secondary and tertiary care sources) through a regional CDR and CWS regardless of which region they are in.
- Clinicians will use a single individual log on. The CWS will display data based on based on defined standards. All accesses to the CDR will be audited.
- Other systems will be integrated with the consistent standardised data.
Project Phase
Scoping and Design
Milestone Dates
See Regional IT Plans
Governance
Regional Governance
Who is Involved
Darren Manley, Northern Region
Alan Grainer, Midland Region
Stuart Wakefield, Central Region
Chris Dever, Southern Region
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.
