Pithy quotes give snapshot of e-health world

NEWS – eHealthNews.nz editor Rebecca McBeth

Picture:IBM Global Healthcare chief nursing officer Judy Murphy speaking at the HiNZ Conference 2018

“Digital transformation is coming to health: we are getting close to the end of the curve of disappointment and we are going to see rapid change in the next few years.” Saxon Connor, e-clinical health lead, Canterbury District Health Board

“The most important thing to get digital transformation in health is accepting it’s about a cultural transformation and revolution. We have to change the way we think and therefore the way we act.” Lloyd McCann, head of digital health, Healthcare Holdings

“You give patients information and with information comes power.” Judy Murphy, chief nursing officer, IBM Global Healthcare, USA

“Advances in technologies will help to achieve government priorities and find new ways of solving problems in a patient-centred way that makes a real difference to our health system.” David Clark, Minister of Health

“Clinicians are the most complex customers on the planet [for IT].” Richard Corbridge, chief digital and information officer, Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust, UK

“I have yet to see any [IT] strategy or policy that achieves even 50 per cent of what it sets out to do.” Lesley Holdsworth, clinical lead for digital health and care, Scottish Government, UK

"Medications taken as prescribed kill more people than diabetes." Andrew Winnington, managing director Precision Medicine International 

“It’s really important to look for our mistakes. I wonder whether this is what we need for digital health – do we need to actively seek out our failures and do we need to be bold about them?” Ruth Large, chair, NZ Telehealth Leadership Group

“It’s a fact that the first GPs and Health Care Homes are now live in the environment using Snomed and their businesses are not falling apart – it’s working.” Alastair Kenworthy, Ministry of Health

"It's not about money, we have plenty of money in the system and at least 20 percent could be used better. It's about people, culture, leadership, collaboration and action," Scott Arrol, chief executive NZ Health IT

“We don’t value patients’ time in healthcare.” Kate Reid, digital health director, Deloitte

“It [the implementation of SI PICS] literally had the potential to bring our health system to its knees.” Peter Bramley, chief executive, Nelson Marlborough District Health Board

“Healthcare technology is so weak relative to technology in the rest of our lives that the innovation or presence and impact of tech titans and the hundreds and hundreds of start-ups in this space is inevitable.” Eric Topol, executive vice president, Scripps Translational Science Institute, USA

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