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18 BAY OF PLENTY BUSINESS NEWS January/February 2017 New Cath Lab means one-stop care for heart patients A new cardiology centre at Tauranga Hospital will provide care close to home in a one-stop-shop for heart patients. THE CARDIAC SERVICES DEVELOPMENT CONTAINING THE CATH LAB INCLUDES: The Cardiac Catheterisation Laboratory (Cath Lab) took its first patients on January 16. The Cath Lab forms part of the Cardiac Services Building 50 development at the hospital which also includes a new clinical physiology area. Angiograms (taking images of the arteries), an interventional cardiology programme (including ballooning and stenting of arteries), implantable devices (e.g. pacemakers and implantable cardioverter defibrillators - ICDs) and other cardiology procedures will all be provided at the facility. “It’s a one-stop shop, with all the services co-located, which is so convenient from the patient’s perspective,” said clinical nurse manager Jason Money. “The independent Cath Lab will also give us opportunity to expand these services in the coming years so we have enough capacity to provide for future growth.” The new Cath Lab features state-of-the-art equipment including a $1.5 million Toshiba Infinix Cardiac Catheter Lab. The move means greater convenience for patients, with the location of a number of services being streamlined. Previously these procedures required a combination of three departments: Cardiology, Medical Day Stay and Radiology. The new Cath Lab will operate as a standalone service. “It’s a win-win,” said Jason. “Not only does it allow us to give care in one location, for our patients. It also allows us to free up resources for two other departments from the demands that our work was previously putting on them. “Being focused on cardiac services in one location like this gives us greater opportunities to ensure that the care we provide to our patients is efficient and accessible, with less need for patients to move between departments. This is an exciting development. We’ve been planning for it for a few years, so it’s great to see it in place.” The Cath Lab will continue to provide care for Whakatane Hospital patients. The Cath Lab will be staffed by six nurses and an HCA assistant who will work alongside cardiologists, clinical physiologists and radiographers rotating through. A pre and post procedure day-stay with seven beds Three echocardiology rooms One echocardiology reporting room Three ECG (Electrocardiogram) rooms Respiratory laboratory Exercise room Two cardiac implantable device service rooms Orbit Travel app makes business travel easy Technology plays a key role in the way we do business, and we’re continuing to invest in smarter ways to help you be more efficient with your business. The Orbit Travel app is one of our key innovative solutions we provide to our clients, focused on making your business travel as hassle free as it can be. Forget paper itineraries. Our exclusive Orbit Travel app gives you instant access to all your trip details, including flight, hotel and taxi bookings, as well as maps, destination guides and more. The app uses “push technology” so that any updates Orbit make to your itinerary will automatically populate and update the app, meaning you don’t need to login or re-enter a booking reference each time you have travel details updated. The app is also the only travel management company app in New Zealand that allows travellers to board their Clinical Nurse Manager Jason Money with the $1.5 million Toshiba Infinix Cardiac Catheter Lab. domestic Air NZ flight by scanning a barcode. In addition, you can check in with Jetstar and Air NZ through the app. Your own personal assistant, the app holds travellers’ itinerary details, regardless of the airline they are travelling and includes accommodation, rental cars and taxi bookings made by Orbit staff. And even better, you can ever share your itinerary and travel details with other people! Ask us for a proposal Whatever your business travel needs, we would love to have the chance to chat about how Orbit can support you – we can meet at your office, over coffee, or even just over email. We can provide you with a free review of your business travel policy – or if you don’t currently have a travel policy, we can provide you with a recommended approach for managing your travel. Already with another travel management? No worries, we have a very simple transition and implementation process. Contact Deborah Workman for more information. Available on APPLE Available on ANDROID
19 How to have a healthier 2017 First things first... if you are someone who has been battling injuries for the whole of 2016 and feel you have been going around in circles, it is time to start 2017 off right! Wellness check: An option I suggest is to book yourself in with your local physiotherapist for a full wellness check. Ask them for a biomechanical assessment as well as a functional movement screen. These two tests can help pinpoint your strengths and weaknesses so you can create a training programme specifically for you (not a generic programme that could injure you further). It is key to know how your body moves and what its weaknesses are, to get the most out of your workouts and get the right balance for your body. A Functional Movement Screen (FMS) identifies areas of weakness and tightness and may predict the likelihood of future injury. A Biomechanical Assessment is an assessment of movement which can explore specific areas identified by the FMS to find the underlying cause of the movement or strength limitations. It can also identify imbalance or lack of symmetry in the body and postural abnormalities. Exercise: Once you have had your wellness check; start exercising. You don’t always have to be in the gym; go for a walk, play tennis, go surfing…just getting active will release those good endorphins and make you feel great. When you go back to work make sure you take regular breaks to stretch and move around. If you are in a physical job; warm the body up before you start the day by stretching key muscles you use, jump on your oov and fire up your core... and then do the same after your shift to help relieve any tightness. Nutrition: Although exercising plays a huge part in how we feel; if you are not backing it up with healthy eating and fuelling your body with the right food, you will just keep putting stress on your body. Stretching: Most of us don’t like to take the time out to stretch because it seems like a waste of time. In fact; this is key to your body’s recovery before and after a workout. It is also important to mix up your workouts with weights, cardio and stretching such as yoga. This is to give different muscle groups a break and to pinpoint different muscle groups to help with your overall strength. Classes like yoga are fantastic to lengthen and strengthen your body, create good breathing patterns and relaxation, which is good for the mind. My favourite stretch (and this is something you can do at home) is the Psoas stretch. The Psoas muscle, in my opinion, is one of the most important muscles in your body. It plays a significant role in determining the efficacy of spinal function. The three basics of why the Psoas is so important: 1. It holds us upright (when we stand the Psoas crosses the rim of our pelvis and pulls the lumbar vertebrae forward and down creating this important curve which allows us to stand upright). 2. It is the walking muscle (the Psoas muscle initiates the movement for walking) 3. Helps us react to traumatic situations (most movements made in a traumatic situation will include the Psoas muscle e.g. running away from something when in danger etc.). To sum it up; the Psoas is an extremely important muscle and needs to be looked after to get the most out of your workouts and daily life. WORKPLACE WELLBEING > BY JOHN APPEL Director, Flex Fitness | Email: mount@flexfitnessgym.co.nz BELOW IS A GREAT STRETCH YOU CAN DO AT HOME TO RELEASE THE PSOAS: Goal: Release the tightness in your Psoas Improves: Normal posture, hip extension, glute activation Reduces: Lower back and hip pain Instructions: 1) Get in to a lunge position with the knee resting on the floor 2) Head, shoulder, hip and grounded knee should be in line 3) Relax and find your stability in the position 4) Squeeze your glutes as you tilt your hips forward 5) Hold the position for 30-60 seconds, repeat 2 to 3 times then switch sides Self care: Although we all lead busy lives with work/meetings, catching up with friends, running around after the kids... it is so important to take time out for yourself. If you feel great it will rub off on everyone around you. How much should we be spending on IT? This depends upon your industry, stage of business development, source of revenue and maturity level. It also depends on your business model - for example, EBay and Trademe, leading e-commerce sites will invest more (relatively) on technology than your local merchandise shop or panel beater. Gartner and other statistical benchmarking analysis and a quick internet search will state that across the globe “you should spend three to six percent of revenue on IT”. However, this rule of thumb needs more consideration for a variety of reasons. Determining what the correct percentage or level of annual spend may be a difficult question to answer as not all IT spend is a cost. Some may be an investment, some a business opportunity and some biased on the historical nature of the organisation and the industry it is in. For example, if you are in the manufacturing sector, and your line of business gets along just fine with an IT spend of five percent of revenue, but the professional services arm may need 3 percent and the app development or robotic R&D team may need 25 percent. Percentage of IT spend versus revenue have traditionally been the measures CEOs liked as they gave sense of measurement and objectivity, but sadly they are not precise due to figures being constructed on accounting rules and allocation. This can lead to dangerous IT decisions. Also, what is being measured and what are you benchmarking against as a percentage of revenue or your overall expenses? Does your website fall under marketing or IT? Is that app you are developing, operational, R&D, marketing or a technology cost or investment? Is your cyber security insurance, IT, technology or insurance? What about shadow spending and other departments technology use? What cost codes do each of these fit in? This can make it difficult to benchmark. Further to this what element of technology should be proportionate to overall IT spend and what is included in the technology budget and at what portion of that spend as a percentage of the budget, e.g. Should 4-6 percent of IT budget go towards security? According to Gartner, companies spend 66 percent of their IT budgets to run IT (do what it takes to keep IT systems chugging along), and spend the rest on business growth projects or transformation projects (those that help the company increase revenue, enter new markets or try something new). The ideal is a 50/50 split, but achieving it isn't easy. At Stratus Blue, we encourage our customers to benchmark those elements that keep your business running, assist in growth and those that transform it to the next stage of evolution. We can then change the question from “How much should I spend?", to "How much can we make or save by spending x on this?”. TECH TALK > BY TONY SNOW For 2017, make a key focus on knowing your body’s weakness – this is key to improving your overall fitness and wellbeing. Director Stratus Blue Ltd. Tony@stratusblue.co.nz | Mobile 021 361 714 T 07 777 0010.
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