Single Clinical Portal live across Wellington

NEWS - eHealthNews.nz editor Rebecca McBeth

The Single Clinical Portal has gone live across Wellington hospitals and the Gateway to the Central Region Portal is due to go live in May 2024.

The new portal is the consolidation and upgrade from the three separate instances of the old Concerto 6 clinical platform to Clinical Portal 8 and is designed to enable patient data to be shared across Health New Zealand Te Whatu Ora Capital, Coast, Hutt Valley and Wairarapa.

It went live at Wairarapa in March 2023, with Hutt Valley and Capital Coast users given access in October and November 2023.

The South Island, Northern, Central and Midland regions are already using Clinical Portal eight to access patient information.

Health NZ central region data and digital lead Steve Miller says the Wellington project is being delivered in phases, with functionality and data from the three previous systems moving to the new combined portal in stages.

All Wairarapa and shared systems from across the two districts, along with historical data, have been migrated.

“The next phase – which involves consolidating Hutt Valley and Capital Coast priority applications in the new portal – is currently well underway and we expect that around 85 percent of users across the two districts will be able to use the new portal exclusively around the middle of this year,” explains Miller. .

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The previous portals remain operational and will run in parallel to the new portal until it is bedded in. Wairarapa will cease using the older portal in the next quarter, with all the older portals planned for decommissioning in late 2024.

A Gateway to connect the Single Clinical Portal to the Central Region Portal is also under development, and is known as the Seamless Clinical Experience.

“When integrated with the new Portal, it will provide clinicians and administrators throughout the Central Region with access to patient records within their appropriate contexts,” he says.

“This implementation will empower all six districts within the region to access comprehensive clinical patient data, regardless of where the patient's encounter occurred within the region. This advancement fosters a unified, region-wide patient perspective, elevating the standard of care across the entire area.”

Miller says feedback from the ‘change champions’ who are trialling the new systems has been very positive to date, and the gateway is on track to go live next month.

Niru Rajakumar, Orion Health, VP Asia-Pacific, says the go-live is a significant achievement and the modern version of Orion Health's Clinical Portal will increase availability of reliable, accurate patient information at the point of care.

“The next key milestone on the horizon is to enable a two-way patient in context view to the Central Region Clinical Portal which will be essential for clinicians to access data on patients that move across the region," he says.

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