Wairarapa Community PHO EOI - New Zealand Doctor
Wairarapa Community PHO EOI - New Zealand Doctor
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Creation of the WC<strong>PHO</strong>/CH Web Hub is one of the largest and most<br />
significant strategic work streams in the Compass Health Information<br />
Management Strategic Plan 42 . The development of this web hub will<br />
align with the Ministry of Health led Connected Health initiative as part<br />
of the National Systems Development Programme 43 .<br />
4.8.5 The Digital Workforce<br />
WC<strong>PHO</strong>/CH will lead the use of video-presence technologies throughout<br />
the primary health sector in the region. WC<strong>PHO</strong>/CH are currently<br />
working on a pilot project, utilising inexpensive technology to deliver<br />
Continuing Professional Development (CPD) and meeting material to<br />
GPTs on their desktops. This has particular application in rural areas<br />
where providers may not have the time to travel considerable distances<br />
for short but regular CPD or Peer Review sessions.<br />
GPTs will have access to previously recorded CPD sessions, and be able<br />
to stream them directly from the Compass Health Web Hub, straight to<br />
the desktop computers, either in their surgery, in their home, or while<br />
they are travelling or at a conference. The collective knowledge to<br />
provide a better health experience for patients will be able to be stored<br />
and accesses in perpetuity.<br />
By providing high quality, interactive but remote access for CPD, the<br />
Compass Health will enable all providers through the lower North Island<br />
greater opportunities to keep their skills in top form.<br />
The organisation will invest time and resource into better understanding<br />
the ability of this video-presence technology to deliver specialist health<br />
services to semi-rural or rural areas. This will be a revolutionary service<br />
to improve access for those hard-to-reach populations, providing<br />
appropriate services in closer and therefore more convenient locations<br />
for them.<br />
4.8.6 Change the Reporting Paradigm<br />
WC<strong>PHO</strong>/CH will change the way funders and providers think about<br />
health information and contractual reporting. Setup of the regional<br />
sector-wide health information analysis unit would facilitate a more<br />
complete health data repository. Radical new thinking will leading the<br />
sector away from “funding” based reporting. Following health dollars<br />
leads to siloed data, siloed information and siloed thinking 44 . Health care<br />
in <strong>New</strong> <strong>Zealand</strong> is holistic and patient centred. The current model of<br />
reporting assumes that each health consultation is funded by a single,<br />
unique funding stream. This is not how health services work, particularly<br />
42 Compass Health. 2009. Compass Health Information Management Strategic<br />
Plan : 2009 - 2012<br />
43 Ministry Of Health. 2009. http://www.moh.govt.nz/healthdomain<br />
44 MacRae J, O’Malley C, Brown M. 2006. Patients Consulting Outside of Funded<br />
Practices within Primary Health Organisations: Implications for Utilisation<br />
Reporting. <strong>New</strong> <strong>Zealand</strong> Medical Journal:119:1233<br />
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