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In 2012, a national health IT plan aimed for all New Zealanders to have electronic access to a core set of personal health information by the end of 2014. It didn’t happen. The ball got rolling towards greater use of texting and the trifecta of e-prescribing, e-referrals and e-laboratory reporting, but progress has been slow. Reporter Simon Maude finds out where all the stop-start change has landed us
Pharmacist prescribers Linda Bryant and Leanne Te Karu discuss positive polypharmacy for heart failure. Current evidence shows the intensive implementation of four medications offers the greatest benefit to most patients with heart failure, with significant reductions in cardiovascular mortality, heart failure hospitalisations and all-cause mortality
