New Zealand's National Health IT Board will convene the first co-design workshop for its national electronic health record (EHR) and digital hospital blueprint next month, as it seeks to have a design for the EHR finalised by the middle of next year and undertake a survey on hospital electronic medical record (EMR) maturity at the same time.
Health Minister Jonathan Coleman announced at the HINZ conference in Christchurch last month that the government would build a single, national EHR that would draw on existing, regionally based EMRs as part of a move from a best-of-breed model to a “hybrid/best of suite” strategy, as recommended in an independent review he commissioned from Deloitte.
