The Telehealth Symposium today has been put together by HINZ and the newly formed New Zealand Telehealth Forum. It's a great time to participate in making telehealth part of everyday healthcare delivery. We've got an excellent line-up of speakers and of course the 165 people attending will have an opportunity to contribute in the workshop and at other opportunities.

Malcolm Pollock is opening the Symposium, saying 'We need to change the way things are.' There are so many…

TELEHEALTH - A Call to Arms

22 February 2012, Auckland

Following our conference theme last year of ‘Working together, Working Smarter’ - the HINZ 2012 Seminar Series comprises three seminars that each partner with a different health-focused organisation. Initially, HINZ will partner with the newly established NZ Telehealth Forum (NZTF) to present ‘Telehealth - A Call to Arms’ - a…

This year, HIMSS Middle East is holding a conference this May 2012 with the 'Connecting People, Potential and Progress' theme.  The middle east (ME) is known for many things around the world and health IT is an area they are starting to focus more on.  This is conference is of particular interest to me (personally and professionally) and will give some insight into new developments and health IT implementation in the region.  

The ME region may be at a different phase in their health…

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…

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…

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..."…

The US open data platform that runs the data.gov website is being open sourced for other governments to use:

Last 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…

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.…

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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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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Here are all the presentations from the HINZ 2011 Conference in Auckland, New Zealand:

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You can also download the papers from…

HINZ 2011 kicked off this morning in Auckland New Zealand with a talk by David Blumenthal, the former National Coordinator for Health IT for the department of Health and Human Services in the US.

Dr Blumenthal talked about the concept of "Meaningful Use" which focuses more on health outcomes rather…

Press release from Simpl:

"Leading New Zealand-owned IT Systems Integrator, Simpl has notched up another major win in the global health market, securing a multi-million dollar contract to deliver and support a Single Community Care Record (SCCR) solution for UK National Health Service’s Torbay Care Trust.

Torbay Care Trust has over 1300 staff and is responsible for providing a full range of health and…

Medical misadventures here in New Zealand - I see why sharing electronic health records is so important

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10762875

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An update on the progress of the Shorter Stays in Emergency Departments National Research Project.

For more information on the project, please visit our website  http://www.akhdem.co.nz/ssed-research/.

Kind regards

Jayshree Ramesh-Sukha

Research Administrator

Shorter Stays in Emergency Departments National Research Project

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Presenter: Andy Bond, Manager of Standards and Interoperability, NEHTA

Date: 8th November, Tuesday 2011

Time: 2pm – 3pm

Place: University of Auckland Tamaki Campus,School of Population Health

Building 730, Room 373 (Level 3)

Topic:

Healthcare and eHealth are invariably described as complex communities with fragmented parts defined by business, clinical, or technical characteristics. Achieving interoperability amongst…

The schedule for the HINZ conference is now available online:

http://www.hinz.org.nz/uploads/file/2011conference/Schedule_6Oct2011.pdf

Speakers include:

International Speakers: Dr. David Blumenthal, Dr. Susan K Newbold and Baldur Johnsen (US), Dr. Peter Weston (UK), Professor Enrico Coiera and Andrew Howard (Australia), Professor Sabine Koch (Sweden),

National Speakers: Marie…