Auckland GP Karl Cole, whose appointment as HML's clinical director has just been announced, wants to realise some of the enormous potential of telehealth.
This, along with improving the interface between HML and practices' enrolled patients, will be one his first tasks, he says in a media release from ProCare.
Initial areas to be targeted include supporting coordinated care and appointments and recall management.
"I get such a buzz out of solving health technology issues. The potential for a better health system is huge and so close if only we can join up the right people to get the right information at the right time," says Dr Cole.
Dr Cole has a Post Graduate Diploma in Health Informatics from Otago University and is currently ProCare's clinical director, information.
Previously a medical officer in the NZ Army, his interest in how information and communications technology can improve health systems was sparked during deployment as a senior medical officer in UN field hospitals.
ProCare chief executive Steve Boomert says Dr Cole's ICT expertise will give the company's telehealth service a huge lift.
HML currently covers 70 per cent of New Zealand and fields around 1 million calls annually.
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Autor(en)/Author(s): Amanda Cameron
Quelle/Source: New Zealand Doctor Online, 12.09.2013
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