Graeme Osborne Director, National Health IT Board

1. Telehealth
An important priority for the
National Health IT Board in 2012
Graeme Osborne
Director, National Health IT Board
Director, Information Group
Ministry of Health
PREPARED BY

2. Enabling an Integrated Healthcare Model
eHealth Vision
To achieve high quality health care and improve patient safety, by 2014 New Zealanders will have a core
set of personal health information available electronically to them and their treatment providers
regardless of the setting as they access health services.

3. Italians – Telehealth?
Fabrizio Biaggi
Rossi Schettino

4. NZ Population
4,412,636 as at Monday, 12 Sep 2011 at 01:28:35 pm
Core Health Information - Health Identity, demographics, allergies and alerts, register of health information
Long Term Conditions - Shared Care Record
Comprehensive Clinical Assessment (InterRAI)
Maternity - Shared Record of Care
Well Child - Shared Record of Care
Mental Health - Shared Record of Care
Common Clinical Results (Laboratory results, Medications, Referrals, Discharges and other clinical documents)
Telehealth - In-home monitoring
Four Regional IT Platforms
Continuum of Care
National minimum
Nat. immunisation
Maternity, Pharms
warehouses etc.
Clinical Information
B4 Schools
Clinical Information
Cancer
register
register
dataset
dataset
Patient Portal Imaging/Picture Archive
Patient Administration Clinical Systems Support
and billing
Patient Administration
Connected Health
Primary/Integrated Specialist/Tertiary/ Public Health
Home Settings
Family Health Centres Secondary Hospital

5. Telehealth needs to be more than a plan…..
 The National Health IT Board maintains a strong and consistent focus on
the eHealth Vision as an outcome
 The Board has recognised that it takes people, giving up their energy
and time, to address the requirements of the IT Plan
 In addition, the Board has identified and addressed barriers to progress
to the outcome
 Telehealth, a subset of the National Health IT Plan, is no different

6. We need to build a Telehealth community….
 The ability of technology advances to support new models of care and
self-care is increasing every day
 How might we create a community of interest that accelerates the
adoption of telehealth solutions to improve: health outcomes,
productivity and patient/clinical/family satisfaction?
 How could we create compelling propositions to decision makers?
 Part of the answer is to
 engage consumers and clinicians in this opportunity
 measure improvements in health outcomes, and
 celebrate and share successes.

7. Telehealth one of three Broadband Priorities
 The Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Economic Development are
working together to ensure the Government’s Ultra-Fast Broadband and
Rural Broadband services are taken up by the health and disability sector
 Three areas are:
 Clinical Integration
 Telehealth
 Consumer Trust and Confidence

8. Investment in Telehealth over two years…
 The Board has invested in the Telehealth Forum to:
 create an implementation roadmap
 engage leaders and recognise their successes
 evaluate and measure improved practice outcomes
 identify barriers to telehealth adoption
 The investment is seed funding over 2 years to establish and set up the
Telehealth Forum
 Healthcare organisations and vendors will need to engage and support
the Telehealth Forum as it develops its value proposition and operating
model
 We are confident that the Telehealth Forum can be self supporting

9. Thank You