Jason Perry from Health Alliance and Simon Burgoyne from BlinkMobile are presenting on mobility enabling collaboration, at the Working in Collaborative Environments conference in Auckland today.

Key points:
– Health Alliance has 500 staff, supporting 26,500 staff in the district health boards. They manage 81,500 assets worth over $1.1 billion.
– Pressures – facing a perfect storm. Eg., (a) delivering quality health care, (b) New Zealanders are growing older and dying later, (c) financial constraints, (d) increased demand for acute and elective surgery.
– Dealing with these pressures will require innovative thinking.
– Collaboration and mobility – telemedicine, tablet-based access to information.
– The ICT environment is complex.
– Collaboration around innovation — ideation for possibilities (followed by proof-of-concepts), build partnerships to expand strength and bring more to the table.
– Innovation is difficult in health. Eg., established ways of working, cultural behavioural preferences, bureaucracy.
– There are new rules around mobility – device independence, designed for on-the-move usage, designed for resources on the internet and the corporate network.
– Two case studies – (a) a way of improving collaboration between the patient and clinician, and (b) develop a mobile dashboard to view critical hospital metrics.