RNZ
Health Minister Simeon Brown has unveiled a 10-year investment plan to shift hospitals away from paper records to new digital systems.
In a statement, Brown said although more than 65 percent of hospitals were still using paper notes, Health New Zealand also had more than 6000 digital systems as a result of underinvestment and quick fixes instead of proper planning.
The new plan envisages a single digital medical records system for the whole country, as well as remote patient monitoring to support earlier discharge, a national radiology system, and stronger cybersecurity.
These would be rolled in three phases over the next decade: “stabilising critical systems, modernising platforms, and enabling innovative healthcare models that put patients first”, Brown said.
“This is a completely new approach for Health New Zealand, tackling the kind of large, complex programmes that have failed in the past when governments have tried to do them alone.”
The plan’s five core objectives were to:
- improve outcomes for patients and families
- support clinicians
- stabilise critical infrastructure
- build foundations for innovation
- enable data-driven decision-making
Brown said Health NZ had already launched its “Accelerate” programme to digitise patient notes in hospitals that were still relying on paper, and upgrade WiFi and device availability to support clinicians across hospital settings.
The separate HealthX programme aimed to accelerate innovation and use of AI by rolling out “one innovation initiative each month to bring digital tools to the frontline”, including rolling out AI scribes to emergency departments, introducing remote patient monitoring, and speeding up x-ray processes.
Was I wrong in asking this question yesterday?
Is this happening here?
If they ask are you vaccinated, just say yes. How will they prove you aren’t?
If they link you medical records held by your doctor, with these hospital records, then the answer is YES
And haven’t we all seen at least one TV program where the hero has to race against time to save someone in a hospital when the interweb has been hi-jacked/failed/lost power… there is a place for paper records, and in a life saving environment they could literally save a life.
To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.
Paul R. Ehrlich
The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men [Doctors] will begin to think like computers. —- Sydney J. Harris
[In other words ignore what your own eyes are seeing.]
{Who asked the question? ]
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. —– Pablo Picasso
[What question was this answer framed for?]
Never trust a computer you can’t throw out a window. —— Steve Wozniak
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It is funny that a farmer found out from National Animal Identification and Tracing (NAIT) programme, a mandatory system computer recording system that required cattle to be registered to go onto or leave a farm.
Every movement of cattle had been diligently verified by the farmer to the agency, since 2012, yet there still was an unaccountable number of cattle, about 2-3 truck & trailer units.
[If only he could sell them to the works, receive the proceeds;– as it would just be paper cattle to paper $money] 🤑
This investigation was triggered by a cattle beast sold at an auction, supposedly from his property.
Yet the detail of who received the beast was not divulged.
Fortunately all his tallies of his mobs proved correct & his reconcilation of numbers were good.
So a bad entry by the system.
The officials then claimed there always was a 2-3% slippage, error that accrued over the years, but that had been cleared out a few years ago.
That had been cleared out a few years ago.
Yer, they just fudged the system.
Shit in, shit out.