NZ Health IT Products
The general consensus from the healthcare community, including overseas trade shows attendees, hospital CIOs, international visitors and others is that NZ has a rapidly growing list of products that are equal to, and in several situations better than international alternatives.
Proven in New Zealand, proven worldwide
While originally developed in New Zealand’s environment, New Zealand health technologies have proven their value in diverse healthcare markets around the world.
New Zealand-developed health software products are widely deployed in many countries including United States, Canada, Hong Kong, Brunei, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore, Australia, the Netherlands, Germany, the United Kingdom, Switzerland and Greece.
Areas of New Zealand's technology leadership
New Zealand’s size has enabled it to become an incubator and test bed for new and innovative ideas. The country’s compact size means that industries can readily collaborate and advance quickly when required. For example the nationwide EFTPOS system linking all trading banks is an innovation we take for granted, except when we travel overseas - New Zealanders have been using EFTPOS for 15 years.
Examples of New Zealand IT innovations include:
- The National Health Index (NHI) has now been in operation since 1993 and is linked to every health provider, primary to quaternary, in the country.
- More than 60%of our GP’s have EMR systems (In the USA this number would be 2% and Australia possibly 20%)
- Point-of-care web portal technologies for hospitals, now installed in 50% of New Zealand hospitals
- 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 third 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 50% of NZ acute hospitals have implemented web-based clinical systems
- Nationwide, 95% of primary care physicians, 100% of radiology clinics and 100% of diagnostic laboratories are connected via a secure health data network
- 95 percent of GP’s, all laboratories, most radiology clinics, etc., are connected to a Health Data Network (the numbers internationally are again extremely low)
- New Health IT companies successfully leverage leading edge research in Health Informatics, Medical Science, and Computer Science by sponsoring cutting edge research and development at the University of Auckland and other leading universities.
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