Sharing Excellence
in Health and Disability Information Management 2006

Date of publication: August 2006

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Summary

New Zealand continues to demonstrate leadership and excellence in the management of health and disability information. This is evident in a number of projects that are contributing in positive ways to improving the health of New Zealanders. It is exciting and encouraging to be given an opportunity each year to showcase some of our successful ventures through the Sharing Excellence in Health and Disability Information Management Awards.

I am pleased to present the winning projects for the 2006 Sharing Excellence in Health and Disability Information Management Awards. Through their stories, the winners prove that being proactive about an idea and also having ‘patient-focused’ models are pivotal to success. By showcasing the achievements of these award-winning projects we can see the great level and depth to which patient or health service needs were identified and subsequently met. Free 24-hour community access to health information or advice, improved quality of data and better monitoring systems are just some of the positive features of the winning projects in which taxpayers, patients, and those at the coalface of health and disability services reap benefits. This year, the awards have been conferred to a range of providers from non-governmental organisations to primary health care providers reflecting progress across many parts of the sector.

The secret to success is making success less of a secret. We can further achieve our own goals and those of others by sharing ‘what works’. I hope you will use this book to extract valuable information for use in your work and that you, too, will be encouraged to share your own stories of success.

Congratulations and thank you to this year’s winners.

The Ministry of Health and Health Informatics New Zealand are pleased to support the people behind the projects and all those associated with their work.


Debbie Chin
Deputy Director-General
Corporate and Information Directorate

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Publication availability

This publication is only available in PDF format and has been split into sections:

Foreword, Contents, Introduction (PDF, 85 KB)
Webhealth (PDF, 1 MB)
Healthline (PDF, 1 MB)
Demand Management Project (PDF, 1 MB)
Integrated Query Engine (PDF, 1 MB)
Conclusion (PDF, 44 KB)


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Publishing information

Date of publication: August 2006

ISBN 0-478-30041-7 (Book)
ISBN 0-478-30044-1 (Internet)

HP number: 4294

Citation: Ministry of Health. 2006. Sharing Excellence in Health and Disability Information Management 2006. Wellington: Ministry of Health