These technologies are in widespread use in New Zealand hospitals RIGHT NOW:
- Point-of-care web portal technologies for hospitals, now installed in 50% of New Zealand hospitals
- EMR systems for primary care physicians, now used by 60% of NZ primary care physicians
- Nationwide Health Index technology, with a unique identifier code for every patient
- The world’s first commercial HL7 and XML clinical messaging toolkit, now sold to hospitals and software vendors worldwide
- The world’s first “Voice-to-text” digital dictation system, which can be used by clinicians remotely over the internet
- The world’s first practice management system for ophthalmologists that integrates and interfaces with 3rd party ophthalmology applications
- Remote/wireless patient information systems for mobile dental therapists, which can communicate via modem or cellular networks
- World leading electronic breast cancer screening program tracking systems
- Clinical guideline software which integrates directly with a physician’s workflow tools
- Centralized, automated electronic coordination of region-wide disease management projects, across multiple remote providers. Currently used for childhood immunization, diabetes and hepatitis B management programs in NZ
- Nationwide health data networks, connecting hospitals, laboratories, radiology services and primary care physicians. In New Zealand, 90% of primary care physicians and 100% of laboratories communicate via secure health data network every day
- World leading biomechanics systems being developed by New Zealand universities
- New Zealand-developed dental software accounted for 50% of all dental software sales in the United Kingdom in the first two quarters of fiscal 2001
- A New Zealand hospital is currently using the world’s first “electronic whiteboard” for ER patient tracking.
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