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EHR - Let’s Set the Record Straight - 8 July 2008 |
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Let’s Set the Record Straight
A critical examination of the issues surrounding the development and use of a shared electronic patient record in the New Zealand environmentTuesday 8th July 2008Clinical Education Centre, Auckland City Hospital
Registration: Member $80 / Non Member $150 (includes a year’s membership to HINZ). Register Here.
Location: Clinical Education Centre, Auckland City Hospital (Download Map in PDF format)
For those registered for this event, HINZ requests that you read familiarise yourself with the attendee briefing report [PDF] in order to get the most out of this event. Programme: Having a widely accessible shared electronic patient record (EPR) available to multiple healthcare providers has the potential to make a major difference to the lives of patients. However it has proved to be a most elusive goal, even for New Zealand with one of the world’s best connected health systems.
Health Informatics New Zealand invites you to attend its second quarterly seminar of 2008. Attendees will be asked to step up to address this challenge and work together with people from across the sector to critically examine this complex and challenging issue and develop a ‘Go Forward’ plan. Solving the EPR riddle holds greater potential to improve healthcare delivery in the 21st century than any other single innovation. Let’s agree upon how we do it and get on with it.
Great Britain, Australia and Canada have spent considerable sums of money trying to develop shared record architectures. In most, if not all cases they have embarked on the journey without a strong consensus as to how that goal will be achieved. It is vital that New Zealand (which has precious few resources to invest and none to waste), carefully determines the best way to approach this fraught and difficult task and moves forward swiftly. The following quotation from a recently published evaluation of The British NHS’ Summary Care Record Early Adopter Programme gives some interesting insights to the task ahead: “The dream of a comprehensive, universally accessible EPR has not yet beenrealised on any significant scale anywhere in the world. Not only is the dream elusive; there are many examples worldwide of it returning to haunt those who try to achieve it. The EPR has been likened to Disney’s Sorcerer’s Apprentice – a broom that is conjured up to ‘do medical work’ but which multiplies far beyond the original vision and exhausts its master in efforts to control and contain it.
Yet the dream persists – partly because we are all excited by the potential of computers (which are linked in the policy unconscious with a ‘modern’ and ‘fit-for purpose’ health system), partly because human error and poor coordination across the numerous interfaces in today’s complex health economy account for thousands of avoidable deaths every year” -Professor Tricia Greenhalgh, University College London –May 2008 |  |
In the first part of this seminar speakers from two US Health Management Organisations; Kaiser Permanente and Group Health will join us by video conference to discuss the value of having a comprehensive electronic patient record.
We will then take a careful sweep of the options for developing a shared electronic patient record for the New Zealand environment, looking at international experience and with the help of expert speakers assess the implications and issues for the New Zealand Health System. Seminar attendees will be encouraged to take an active part in the proceedings and all attendees will be sent a briefing document prior to the seminar.
Speakers: This full-day seminar will be held on Tuesday 8th July at The Fisher & Paykel Clinical Education Centre, Auckland Hospital. It will commence at 9am. The following people have been invited to speak:
- Andy Wiesenthal Kaiser Permanente
- Matt Handley Group Health
- Peter Sprivulis NEHTA
- Harry Pert QI4GP/IPAC
- Shayne Hunter HISAC
- Paul Claxton Microsoft Health Vault
- Marissa Mayer, Google Health
- Susan Turner Harbour Health
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