The Patients First Information related projects include:

National Primary Care Quality and Information Leadership Group

This stream works across Quality and Information for primary care.  The National Health IT Board is holding Patients First accountable for the delivery of the Primary Care components of the National Health IT Plan.  In the broader context, Patients First is working to integrate quality and information - including applying the science of the Clinical Quality Indicators work from RNZCGP (and Wellington School of Medicine) in practice.

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PMS (Practice Management System) Requirements

Funded by the National Health IT Board, the Primary Care PMS Requirements Project  is required to define Primary Care PMS Requirements including requirements, prioritization criteria and roadmap which includes a structure that is suitable for applying to a national PMS certification programme.

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Clinical Pathway Tool Evaluation

Funded by the National Health IT Board, the Clinical Pathway Tool evaluation is assessing a range of options for implementation of clinical pathways supported by tools in New Zealand.

The starting hypothesis for this feasibility study is that a Clinical Pathway Tool that is applied nationally, and that also allows for local variations, will deliver improvements in the quality of health care for patients (safety, timeliness, efficiency, equity, effectiveness and patient-centricity).

This feasibility study aims to test the stated hypothesis as far as possible with the time and resources available, so that a decision can then be made on whether to seek funding for such a tool.  While there is a degree of process and due diligence required for the tool evaluation within this work, it is not a procurement exercise and will not directly result in a tool selection or business case.

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GP2GP (now in pilot)

Now transferred from the Ministry of Health to Patients First for final implementation and rollout, GP2GP provides the basis on which patient records can be transferred between PMS systems as structured data.

This project has entered its pilot phase, deploying GP2GP to roughly 65 sites around the country from 1 July 2011.

Feedback and quality improvements from this pilot will be fed back into the project for inclusion in the general release currently planned for the end of July 2011.

GP2GP Preliminary Release 30 June

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Safe Medication Management (SMM) – Primary Care

The SMM Programme has extended its focus from hospitals into Primary Care and have contracted Patients First to be the coordination and delivery point between the SMM Programme and the Primary Care sector.

The initial focus for this project includes – relevant data for eDischarge and eReferral with primary care, medications reconciliation (between hospitals and GPs and GPs and rest homes) and ePharmacy.