Welcome to the Hive, New Zealand's Health Innovation Exchange. We're here to foster discussion and collaboration to promote innovation in New Zealand's health sector.
This Hive is also a Social eLearning network for healthcare students. We host private groups for a range of healthcare courses.
As well as learning in their own private groups, students can connect with health innovators on the network.
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Posted by Nouran Ragaban on December 16, 2011 at 5:28pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
Posted by Koray Atalag on December 16, 2011 at 12:00pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
One big challenge in health informatics is to obtain structured and coded data in clinical practice and then being able to make different systems understand their meaning - aka the 'semantic interoperability'. Biomedical terminology, like SNOMED, is important; however having common 'content models' (such as how to represent blood pressure measurement or APGAR score) is essential. These are, in engineering terms, are computable information models. It is really these…
ContinuePosted by Alan Le Maitre on December 13, 2011 at 4:07pm 0 Comments 1 Like
The Interoperability Reference Architecture v1.0 document is now in its final form, the document is available from the link below. The document has been re-shaped in order to centre on the HISO 10040 series HIE Architecture Building Blocks, which the RA incorporates and expands upon. The supporting material, which made up a large part of our earlier contributions, has been moved to a new appendices section. This is not designed to diminish the importance of this material but to improve…
ContinuePosted by Chris Paton on December 7, 2011 at 4:18pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
The British Computer Society have an article about New Zealand's health IT scene:
"New Zealand has developed health informatics to drive efficiencies. Its size and dispersed population have led to innovative uses of technology, acting as a pilot market for broader application in the UK. Malcolm Pollock, Director of New Zealand’s National Institute for Health Innovation, explains how..."…
ContinuePosted by Chris Paton on December 6, 2011 at 12:59pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
The US open data platform that runs the data.gov website is being open sourced for other governments to use:
ContinueLast week, President Obama’s unprecedented efforts to advance open and transparent Government reached an important milestone. As part of a joint effort by the United States and India to build an open government platform, the U.S. team has deposited open source code– an important benchmark in developing the Open…
Posted by Chris Paton on December 6, 2011 at 12:30pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
The BBC has a series of infographics about traffic accidents and road deaths. I'd like to see probabilities of dying for the different sections of roads rather than absolute numbers, but it is still a great use of internet-friendly graphics to show the statistics.…
Posted by Chris Paton on December 1, 2011 at 12:18pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
The University of Auckland is now live on iTunes. You can download lots of health innovation related lectures including some great talks on Bioengineering and Brain Science.
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ContinuePosted by Chris Paton on November 29, 2011 at 5:22pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
New eBooklet from the IT Health Board with case studies that show how New Zealanders are benefiting from information technology solutions:
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ContinuePosted by Chris Paton on November 29, 2011 at 2:00pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
Here are all the presentations from the HINZ 2011 Conference in Auckland, New Zealand:
You can also download the papers from…
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