Shared Healthcare Strategic Trial Launches

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Canterbury Shared Healthcare Strategic Trial Launches

Auckland, 15 November 2010 – HSAGlobal’s Collaborative Care Management Solution (CCMS) is being implemented as a part of a programme transforming the Canterbury health system. The project to pioneer a Shared Care Planning and Management System is part of a strategic trial of ‘integrated health clusters’ in Christchurch.

The pilot project, carried out under Canterbury’s ‘Better, Sooner, More Convenient’ health initiative business case, will showcase the possibilities for true primary-community-secondary integration in New Zealand. Led by the Canterbury Clinical Network (CCN), with support and funding from the National Health IT Board, the trial will focus on achieving sustainable change in integrated health service delivery, enabled by corresponding funding and governance changes.

Under the shared care model being initiated by the Canterbury pilot, integrated family health teams will cluster around a geographically contiguous population focussing in on the 1020% of the population with the highest healthcare needs. HSAGlobal will design the shared care processes and provide software and change support so that primary, secondary and community-based health providers can deliver seamless 'shared care' for these patients in a better coordinated and more efficient way.

HSAGlobal’s purposebuilt shared care management solution, CCMS, will support around 50 multi-disciplinary providers in one pilot cluster to manage an identified cohort of shared care patients from the cluster’s overall patient population of approximately 30,000. GPs, district nurses, community pharmacists, mental and allied health workers, geriatricians, other secondary clinicians as well as social agencies and support staff will be involved.

In shared care, integration with existing systems is critical to achieving best results. The National Health IT Board is funding the project to deliver two-way integration between CCMS and leading GP practice management solution MedTech. HSAGlobal has already delivered this level of integration with the MyPractice practice management solution in 2009, using the proposed GP2GP standard to exchange administrative and clinical data. Integration between CCMS and Test Safe South will also be implemented for this project.

“The Canterbury Clinical Network (CCN), working with its regional primary care, community and DHB partners, and supported by the National Health IT Board, is leading the way in developing more effective, integrated models of service delivery, funding and governance,” says Dr Martin Wilson, GP.

“We are working with HSAGlobal as our partner in integrating care across the health system for their ability to support process and practice change for practitioners and enable this with their purpose-built technology.”

Graeme Osborne, Director of the National Health IT Board, says “The National Health IT Board is leading a drive towards enabling shared care health service delivery, based on joined up health information. It is willing to invest to ensure shared care software, like CCMS, can operate with all four patient management systems used in primary care by GPs and practices. The Canterbury based project provides an excellent opportunity to integrate CCMS with MedTech initially, and over time with IntraHealth and Houston, building on the GP2GP project and the integration already available between CCMS and MyPractice. We see a huge potential for shared care to make a difference to the quality and cost of healthcare and will also be funding a detailed evaluation stream in the project to ensure results are well understood.”

“The Canterbury Health System Business Case is regarded as the foremost health sector transformation initiative currently underway in New Zealand and is being watched with interest internationally,” says Matt Hector-Taylor, Chief Executive, HSAGlobal. “The pilot will be thoroughly evaluated and we hope to establish further evidence that integration of care delivery supported by a specialist shared care management platform enables better patient outcomes at a lower cost to the health system overall.”

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About Canterbury Clinical Network
The Canterbury Clinical Network (CCN) is an evolving consortium of health care leaders, including urban and rural general practitioners and practice nurses, community nurses, pharmacists, physiotherapists, Canterbury DHB planning and funding management, Manawhenua ki Waitaha, PHO and IPA representatives. The network has strong links with hospital clinicians and a wide range of community health professionals and is governed by the Transition Leadership Board (TLB).

About HSAGlobal
HSAGlobal’s patient-centric shared care management tools manage workflows across multiple primary, secondary and community providers, resulting in seamless care delivery that improves quality and removes duplication. Each person involved gains the confidence that the best mix of care is being proactively delivered at the right place. HSAGlobal is powered by people experienced in the healthcare sector and has clients and service provider partnerships in New Zealand, Australia, Canada, Singapore and the United States. Our tools are cost-effective and accessible on a range of devices so all care providers can have healthcare software anywhere. www.hsaglobal.net

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