Interactive Midland Clinical Portal on its way

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eHealthNews.nz editor Rebecca McBeth 

The MCP went live in July 2017 , providing a read-only view of real-time patient information via a shared instance of Orion Health’s clinical portal product visible across the five Midland region DHBs – Bay of Plenty, Lakes, Hauora Tairāwhiti, Taranaki and Waikato.

eSPACE is delivering the portal project and a spokesperson says the programme is preparing to deliver the building blocks for an interactive, read-write capable regional portal.

“Read-write capability will streamline recording and sharing of patient information by reducing repetition, improving accuracy and enabling more efficient access, moving the MCP a step closer to becoming the clinical system of record for Midland DHBs,” she says.

“The building blocks currently under construction are largely technical solutions to ensure the various systems and data repositories incorporated into the MCP can effectively interact with each other and with users across the region.”

Improvements include a single sign-on solution, replacing the complex range of log-ins and identifiers clinicians currently need, and the ability for users to create patient data directly in the MCP.

“Collectively, these elements will provide the foundation to enable an MCP that is fast, robust and responsive to the growing needs of clinicians,” the spokesperson says.

The platform is also being integrated with national data repositories such as St John and the New Zealand e-Prescription Service, and there is a pilot project trialling information sharing between selected Midland clinicians and Starship children’s hospital.

“By building the range and quality of information available through the MCP in this way, Midland clinicians will be able to make better clinical decisions, based on broader information that is relevant and easier to find,” she says.

eSPACE programme clinical authority chair Ian Martin says clinicians from each of the five DHBs are represented on the authority and all clinical decisions on the portal development are made by this group.

“The people we have in the room are really good at having a discussion, disagreeing violently, but still listening to each other and ultimately getting to a conclusion,” he tells eHealthNews.nz.

To read more about Martin’s role and the eSPACE clinical authority, read this feature .

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