9 May 2018

The floppy disk is long gone, but there are plenty of new innovations in health IT. Fiona Thomas presents an A to Z of what's going on in the health tech sector.

Blenheim GP Jim Vause reflects on the efforts of the prostate taskforce to find something useful to share with GPs

GP triage, after-hours care, call-monitoring... Moves are afoot at Emma Dunning’s practice to set up a health care home

Goodfellow Unit well-wish­ers gathered at University of Auckland Tamaki Cam­pus last week to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the groundbreaking GP educa­tion unit

James Te Whare (Ngāti Rereahu/Ngāti Maniapoto/Waikato) is a GP at Otara Whanau Medical Centre in south Auckland. He’s been a GP in Ōtara for the past 23 years

Little and often has been the rate of change at Mangere’s Turuki Health Care over the last year to 18 months, says clinical director Lily Fraser

A one-year, $5.7 million contract renewal will give the team behind New Zealand’s surgical bus ser­vice an opportunity to plan for the future, says Mobile Health chief executive Mark Eager

A pay equity claim launched by DHB administration and cler­ical workers has the power to push up wages for similar roles in primary care, says the chair of the Practice Managers and Administrators Association of New Zealand

Change has been a constant in the health sector for as long as I can remember. Our PHO has started to talk about the introduction of health care homes and I have started to sense resistance among the team. Any advice you can give in uniting our team would be appreciated

Calls to the Ministry of Health’s integrity line appear to be in­creasing, the number surpassing previous tallies with more than two months to go before the end of the financial year