Recent Projects

Northern DHB Support Agency (NDSA) and healthAlliance

(Sept 2010–Ongoing)

Stuart MacKinnon has a background as a registered psychologist and so is excited to have been invited to support the NDSA and healthAlliance in establishing Phase 2 of the Auckland Regional Mental Health IT Project (ARMHIT Phase 2).  ARMHIT Phase 1 resulted in the establishment of a single secondary care based IT system for mental health clinicians across the Auckland metropolitan region. In Phase 2, the focus is expected to include supporting integration between primary, secondary and community services.  Phase 2 will begin with consultation with service users and clinicians across the Northern Region.  The project is expected to have links with the National Shared Care Plan Programme, the Auckland Regional eReferrals Project, and integration demonstration projects being run by the Ministry of Health.

 

Northern Region DHB’s and the National Health IT Board

(Jan 2010–Ongoing)

Analysis One has been engaged to carry out a number of activities in relation to the National Health IT Board's planned delivery of a national Shared Care Plan system.  This system will deliver electronic shared care plan patient records across primary, secondary and community health providers.  Activities include a review of relevant regional projects, the development of a high-level requirements and options paper, and the running of a national workshop to identify clinical priorities.  This work is being lead by the Northern Region DHB Chief Information Officers at the request of the National Health IT Board. 

New Zealand Guidelines Group

(Sep 2009–Ongoing)

Advising on the development of national clinical guideline implementation projects in the context of the current regional and national health IT projects such as electronic referrals, primary care messaging and patient medical record “portal” projects.  

Northern Regional DHB Support Agency

(Jul 2009 – Sep 2009)

Analysis One conducted an independent audit of laboratory infrastructure and messaging systems. The audit focused on the presence of fundamental enterprise IT department components such as security policies, disaster recovery plans, separation of test and production environments, testing and change control processes. This role involved both pre-emptive identification of primary care messaging problems and implementing solutions. 
 

New Zealand Guidelines Group / Ministry of Health Joint Project

(Mar 2009–Aug 2009)

Analysis One scoped a project to establish national standards for the specification and accreditation of electronic clinical decision support (eCDS) systems. This involved researching international approaches, clarifying options and making recommendations. A follow-on proof of concept project is awaiting funding from the Ministry of Health.  

Health Alliance

(Jan 2007- Ongoing)

Secondary to Primary Electronic Messaging: Analysis One has led the development and implementation of a new electronic message for transferring modern clinical documents and data between secondary and primary care. This solution enhances clinical safety by solving several problems inherent in the original message type and is gradually being adopted nationally.

Clinical Systems Enhancements Programme:

Analysis One has played BA and PM roles in an ongoing programme of work to successfully specify, develop and implement enhancements to the systems used to generate electronic discharge summaries at Counties Manukau and Waitemata DHB’s. The current focus is supporting testing and issue resolution for a new “medications reconciliation” module which integrates with the discharge summary system.

Chronic Care Management Systems:

Successfully managed enhancements to multiple systems used to support chronic care management in primary care. Managed requirements gathering for a replacement system. Coordinated the development of a plan to decommission old infrastructure.

Medical Equipment Integration:

Currently managing the integration of computerised medical equipment, resolving issues such as network security and electronic delivery of clinical reports to clinicians.

Ad-hoc Business Analysis and Consulting:

Analysis One has been involved in numerous other projects as a BA (e.g. Regional Dispensing Repository project, eLearning system requirements) and in a consulting role (e.g. advising on offshore hosting of clinical data and analysing and documenting internal processes).