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Aged Care - Care in the Community - 25 May 2007 - Auckland

Care in the Community and the Emerging Importance of Connected IT

Friday 25th May 2007, Deloitte Building, Wyndham Street, Auckland [map]

A key platform of today's healthcare strategy is to keep chronically ill patients in the community. We understand that achieving this is increasingly assisted by clever IT systems and services. Out objective is to stimulate discussion on this topic and to create a forum in which information can be disseminated and shared. Until very recently use of IT in community healthcare was severely constrained by lack of mobile communications services. Gradually this deficiency has been overcome and a range of innovative systems and services has become available to assist care providers to look after patients in their communities.

Update 3/6/2007: Thank you to all the presenters and attendees that helped make this event a success.. presentation slides are posted below.

Programme

8.30am Coffee and Registration

9.00am Welcome and Introduction - Tom Bowden, HINZ Executive

9.15am How Healthcare New Zealand is taking advantage of computing and communications technology to improve its delivery of services.
Presented by: Mike Keyworth, Business Manager Improvement, Healthcare New Zealand.

10.00am Strategies to enhance existing services with innovative technology: Achievements to date and the future challenges.
Presented by: Dr Bart Nuysink, The Selwyn Foundation and Ray Delany, National Institute for Health Innovation

10.45am Morning Tea

11.00am "Slate to tablet" - a user's experience of PalCare Whangarei. The journey from a paper based palliative care system to a web based, real time palliative client information management system.
Presented by: Dr Warrick Jones, North Haven Hospice, Whangarei and Kelvin Sulker, PalCare, Melbourne, Australia

12.00pm Care provision in the community, can connected IT drive service integration and accountability?
Presented by: Paula Polkinghorne, Healthphone Solutions

12.30pm Not just coping with but excelling on low margins, with limited resources and increasing compliance: HOW?
Presented by: Gavin Wright, Fraame Solutions

1pm Lunch

1.30pm Vendor Demonstrations and Open Forum Discussion

3.00pm END

If you have any suggestions on topics you would like to see covered in this or future seminar programmes please contact us.

www.deloitte.co.nz HINZ thanks the Health Sector Group at Deloitte for providing the venue for this event.