It seems NZ is getting some feedback on selection of its National EHR.
This popped up this week:
New Zealand can learn lessons of EHR projects worldwide
Wednesday 28 March 2018
eHealthNews editor Rebecca McBeth
HiNZ keynote speaker Richard Corbridge says learning from electronic health record roll-outs around the world offers the New Zealand health sector the opportunity to get it right here.
New Zealand can learn from the failures and successes of electronic health record implementations around the world, says HiNZ 2018 keynote speaker Richard Corbridge.
The New Zealand government is considering the indicative business case for a national EHR.
Corbridge was chief executive officer of eHealth Ireland during its EHR project and will discuss at this year’s HiNZ conference how his team learnt lessons from the successes and failures of the United Kingdom’s attempt to roll-out a national EHR under its National Programme for IT a decade earlier.
“New Zealand, like Ireland, can learn so many lessons from the many countries that have gone ahead,” he says.
A key lesson is the need to push hard for vendors to be completely interoperable from the very beginning.
“New Zealand can make sure it doesn’t get locked into systems and that information follows the patients, which is the most important benefit that we are trying to get out of this,” Corbridge says.
Another key learning from the UK and Ireland’s experience is the critical role of clinical engagement and leadership.
Lots more here:
All I can say to young Richard is to come to Australia for the food, wine and people but not for any useful advice on Digital Health unless you want to find out how the really mess up a National Secondary EHR Project. We sure know all the things you can do wrong to pretty much guarantee failure!
In fact I would suggest a careful and prolonged review of many of the more successful countries and to omit Australia from the itinerary altogether, much though it pains me to say so!
David.
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