Under the three-year innovation partnership signed today, North Shore Hospital’s Special Care Baby Unit and Ward 10 (Haematology) will become hubs for the development of new technology supporting healthcare delivery.
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The e-health initiative aims to make two wards paperless, and if it's successful Waitemata DHB will spread it to other services.
Born prematurely, Maria Williams depends on the high-tech world of North Shore Hospital's special care baby unit. So it's fitting that the unit will become the hub for a new technological step forward.
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An RFP for a national integrated telehealth phone number to replace multiple service phone lines was due to be released last month (New Zealand Doctor, 12 March), but a letter from the Ministry of Health released last week says there has been a change of plan.
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Claire Govier joined healthAlliance last year to lead a series of major technology upgrades, including the shift to the Windows 7 operating system for its 26,500 users.
Before the end of 2013, she became its chief information officer.
The Ministry of Health is expected to issue a request for proposals for the new service in the next few days to integrate the current dedicated lines for smoking, gambling, alcohol, drugs, depression and poisons with the existing Healthline, where registered nurses provide free phone advice on any health condition.