HSAGlobal appoints New Zealand Country Manager

HSAGlobal appoints New Zealand Country Manager to support growth

Connected Care specialist HSAGlobal has appointed Vidhya Makam as Country Manager for New Zealand.

HSAGlobal is currently engaged in six major programmes of work across New Zealand, Australia and Singapore to provide integrated care solutions and consulting services. Vidhya is responsible for the implementation and technical teams delivering HSAGlobal’s Collaborative Care Management Solution (CCMS) to customers in New Zealand. She joins Country Managers already in place for both Singapore and Australia.

Vidhya joined HSAGlobal as Implementation Consultant in January, having most recently held the role of CIO at Hawke’s Bay District Health Board.
“Vidhya has a deep insight into the enabling role that IT plays in the healthcare sector,” says HSAGlobal CEO Matt Hector-Taylor. “She has very specific technical and project management skills coupled with a big picture view of the complex health system and how various people and organisations work together in achieving the desired patient outcomes. This strategic vision and change management expertise, coupled with Vidhya’s technology and service delivery background are vitally important as our business continues to grow. New Zealand is a critical reference point for us as we start to help healthcare systems in other countries transform the way care is delivered for patients with long-term conditions, across primary, secondary and community healthcare providers.”
Vidhya says: “The health sector is in a state of transformational change where there is growing pressure to rethink how care is delivered and managed. Working in the health sector is my passion, and this role at HSAGlobal gives me an opportunity, using the CCMS solution, to enable and support the implementation of new models of care and the sharing of information and care between providers from various settings.”
In New Zealand, HSAGlobal provides:
• the platforms for the National Shared Care Plan Project in Auckland, Counties Manukau and Waitemata DHBs;
• the Canterbury Collaborative Care Programme, including the CREST early supported discharge programme and other initiatives supporting high needs patients in the District with an implementation supporting palliative care in South Canterbury DHB also under way;
• the software supporting the Exceptional Circumstances and Pharmacy High needs Adherence Management Service (PHAMS) application and approval workflows as part of the Community Pharmacy Service Agreement (CPSA);
• capability to be used in the delivery of a shared Medications Management Plan for eligible Long-Term Conditions patients under the CPSA;
• solutions for several other initiatives in primary care, aged care and social care.

Vidhya is a certified PRINCE2 practitioner, with Leadership and Change Management Training and certification from the NZ Institute of Management. She holds a Master’s of Science (Chemistry) and is ITIL certified.
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About HSAGlobal
HSAGlobal specialises in connected care for patients with complex long-term conditions. The company has years of experience in primary care integration with clients in New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, the USA, Canada and the UK. Its core competencies are the design, delivery and implementation of its connected care platform and the clinical process, technology and project management services to support integrated care management.
HSAGlobal’s patient-centric tools improve workflows across multiple primary, secondary and community care providers. The result is seamless care delivery that improves quality and removes duplication.
HSAGlobal is the platform for New Zealand’s Shared Care Plan (www.sharedcareplan.co.nz) and underpins the Collaborative Care Programme in one of the world’s most integrated health systems – Canterbury.
For more information visit www.hsaglobal.net.

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