Counties Manukau DHB has rolled out the Inpatient Snapshot developed in-house by Waitemata DHB, which is giving hospital clinicians a clear and up-to-date view of a patient's essential data in real time.

First launched in December 2017 with information from Waitemata's observations system eVitals and its ePrescribing system MedChart, it now includes information on a patient’s allergies, referrals, radiology and lab results and community dispensing results.

Waitemata DHB pharmacist and information systems clinical change manager David Ryan said the technology had been completely developed in-house by one of the DHB's web developers using the open source web framework ASP.NET.