Barry Ayling's blog

This blog is part of my study in HealthInfo728 at Univ of Auckland in which we are currently considering disruptive technology - specifically, IT systems.
Orthosys is a patient management system with a web-like interface, designed in Auckland by clinicians with an independent IT company, specifically for Orthopaedic services.  It is currently being implemented in a few sites around New Zealand. 
It is a patient management system that enables the service to plan and track inpatient/outpatient flow, but also provides a log of diagnoses, treatments, etc, that can be used for research, reporting to the national joint register, surgeon logs, etc. 

I have been following the Health Management System Collaborative (7 DHBs plus 3 others who may jump in once established)  (HMSC) project to establish a national, person centric, health management system which will be accessible to 'all health professionals and individuals within a population' and available to health providers in other regions when the person is travelling.  While the proposed system sounds fantastic, a question I'm trying to answer is how beneficial will this be to Nursing and Allied Health?