Grand plan to develop a single national electronic health record for Kiwis

A single national electronic health record system will be developed in New Zealand over the next three to five years.

Health minister Jonathan Coleman made the announcement this morning at the Health Informatics New Zealand conference in Christchurch.

Dr Coleman, together with the Health IT Board, commissioned an independent report on the benefits of a single electronic health record earlier this year.

This review by Deloitte was recently completed with a key finding that there is growing international support for adopting a strategy for electronic health records where a single record is introduced to join up information currently held in a smaller number of electronic medical record systems.

Dr Coleman says the findings suggest creating a single record that physically consolidates health information in one place will improve decision support and care coordination, especially for complex patients with multiple long-term conditions. For the full article click here

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