National Screening Solution live at ten DHBs

eHealthNews.nz: National Systems & Strategy

Tuesday, 7 September 2021

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NEWS - eHealthNews.nz editor Rebecca McBeth

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NBSP Eight DHBs have gone live with the National Screening Solution (NSS) for bowel cancer screening over the past year.

Two DHBs using the pilot IT system to support the National Bowel Screening Programme (NBSP) have also successfully transitioned to the new national solution, with eight due to switch in the coming months.

“It was a complex, well executed business led process that maintained participant safety,” says programme director Stephanie Chapman.

The NSS replaces the Bowel Screening Pilot register that was used by the first ten DHBs to go live with the NBSP, but which has come to the end of its life.

The NSS went live in March 2020 to support the NBSP, however the programme was suspended shortly after this due to the need to divert resources to support the Covid-19 response.

The National Bowel Screening Programme resumed in June of last year, with the first DHB going live on the NSS in August 2020. Seven more DHBs rapidly joined over the following year, with the programme now delivered in 18 of the 20 DHBs.

Stephanie says the NSS platform uses an architecture that leverages modern cloud-based technology platforms, which include Salesforce ServiceCloud, Deloitte’s HealthConnect accelerator, AWS for data management and MuleSoft for integration.

“It also includes a Business Rules Engine to deal with complex decisions around eligibility and flow, whilst maintaining flexibility around changes to these rules,” she explains.

Stephanie says the NSS is the first cloud-native major national health information platform and use of modern cloud platforms enabled the rapid roll-out of the solution.

The new platform is supporting bowel screening but has been designed for use by other screening and population health initiatives.

Last year it was rapidly repurposed to develop the National Contact Tracing Solution, which stores case and contact details linked by COVID-19 exposure events, and supports contact management.

The NCTS has since been expanded to support the COVID-19 border process. It has been rolled out to managed isolation and quarantine facilities where it captures facility and room registration, day 3 and day 12 test requirements, daily health checks and the day 14 final release decision.

Hear more from Stephanie during her presentation at Digital Health Week in Wellington from 29 November to 1 December 2021. Register here.