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Primary Care: Information Challenges Thursday 27th October 2005

PRIMARY CARE: Challenges of Information and Information Systems

Thursday 27th October 2005 - 8:30AM to 5:00PM
Venue: Deloitte - 8th Level - 8 Nelson Street, Auckland City

*Registration begins at 8.00AM*

The objective of this unique one day knowledge sharing and gathering is to "collectively" discuss some of the issues associated with information in Primary Care and explore strategies that will ultimately effect better health outcomes. There will also be an opportunity to hear about the Ministry of Health's Performance Management Framework, views on quality requirements, the potential offered by patient management systems (PMS) and applications for outcomes focused PHO-based input into the DHB planning cycle. Online registration for this event can be found here.

Seminar sponsor: Dr Allan Moffit Counties Manukau GP and Director of Primary Care Development, Counties Manukau DHB

Update: If you have already registered for this event please download the pre-seminar materials here.

Key contributors include:

• Paul Cressey, Chair, Health Information Strategy Action Committee
• Dr Inga Hunter, GP Mid-Central Health and Lecturer, Health Informatics, Massey University
• Dr Jocelyn Tracey, GP West Harbour, Auckland Faculty Board Member RNZCGP
• Tracey Barron, Strategy Manager for the PHO Performance Management Programme
• Phil Brimacombe, CIO Counties Manukau and Waitemata DHBs
• Dr John Wellingham, Primary Care Advisor Waitemata DHB

Key topics include:

• Opportunities arising from the information gathered by PHOs
• Ownership of primary care information / data
• Potential strategic initiatives utilising primary care data
• The PHO DHB interchange of information to achieve outcome based performance monitoring and input in to the DHB planning cycle, including Health Needs Assessment, the District Strategic Plan (DSP) and District Annual Plan (DAP).

A key feature of this seminar will be interactivity amongst the participants. The format for this seminar will allow for a tangible outcome at the end. A final report of the discussions in the key streams will be made available to policymakers and participants alike.

Detailed Programme: The complete event programme is available here.

Cost: $55 for HINZ, NZHUG and NZHITC Members / Non members $75
Includes all refreshments and lunch.

There has never been an opportunity like this before. Space is restricted and very few seats are still available so register now!

Registration for this event is now closed.

HINZ thanks the Health Sector Group at
Deloitte for providing the venue for this event.