Pulse+IT took a trip across the ditch this week to pay a visit to the annual Health Informatics New Zealand conference, where among a terrific line-up of speakers we were lucky enough to hear a ripping yarn from the multi-talented Will Reedy, director of digital for telco Spark NZ, emergency department doctor and independent chair of the advisory committee for New Zealand's national electronic health record (NEHR) project.
Dr Reedy was presenting on the topic of consumer-held records, and it just so happened that on one particularly busy Friday recently at the Middlemore Hospital ED in Auckland, a 60-year-old woman from Boston, Massachusetts, turned up having turned her ankle on a visit to the Cable Bay Vineyards at Waiheke.
