New Zealand — Faces of digital health podcast

F115 Primary healthcare digitalisation in New Zealand, Australia, UK and US (Dimitri Varsamis)

Dr. Dimitri Varsamis is Senior Policy Lead for digital primary care at NHS England. End of 2020 he published a report titled Incentives and levers for digitising and integrating primary care in New Zealand, Australia, and the USA - lessons for the UK’s NHS. Dr. Varsamis researched primary care digitalisation prior to the global coronavirus pandemic.

Country Profile, Healthcare PolicyTjasa ZajcJanuary 20, 2021New Zealand, primary care, Healthcare, healthcare IT, Change ManagementComment

F109 How digitally healthy is New Zealand? (Scott Arrol)

New Zealand is not a very large country so one might think digitalization of the healthcare system shouldn’t be too difficult to achieve. On the contrary, it is far from simple because of the complex and fragmented healthcare system design.

Country Profile, Data, Healthcare PolicyTjasa ZajcNovember 30, 2020New Zealand, Health Data, healthcare, Healthcare IT Comment