The New Zealand Computer Society

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The New Zealand Computer Society

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• SEARCC Round Table Meeting
• Bruce McLean MNZCS
• President NZCS

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1. Country and Member Society background.- New
Zealand
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New Zealand is

• a country of diverse cultures and opportunities
• proud of its Polynesian heritage mingled with
  European tradition
• famous worldwide for its beautiful scenery and
  friendly people
• a lush country, holding many attractions for
  visitors with its dramatically changing visage
  throughout the countryside and variety of outdoor
  pursuits.

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New Zealand's two main islands offer

• towering mountain ranges
• brilliant alpine lakes
• ancient forests
• rolling green hills
• fertile plains and
• magnificent beaches

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National Office
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NZCS Membership

• Members 515
• Affiliates 953
• Associates 104
• Fellows 28
• Honorary Fellows 21
• Total 1621
• Staff of Corporate Partners - 1264
• Corporate Partners - 83

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NZCS Recent Events

• New High Profile CEO - Mr Douglas White
• New up market premises - 158 The Terrace,
  Wellington
• New lean National Council structure 8
  councilors plus CEO

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Two NZCS Projects

• Certification a senior team of five to research
  other professional groups in NZ and other
  Computer Societies. Good support from our
  members, major industry players, the educational
  sector and government. We expect to have a plan
  by the beginning of November.

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NZCS Scholarships

• Currently 10 scholarships.
• This year we are expecting to increase by 300.
• We are hoping to involve our corporate partners
  in sponsoring more scholarships

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Some of New Zealands business advantages include

• A highly educated, flexible and multi-skilled
  workforce
• Property costs among the most competitive in the
  Pacific
• Unencumbered free movement of capital
• A simple tax system with a corporate tax rate of
  just 33 and minimal (and in most cases zero)
  capital gains tax
• Overall tax paid by international companies in
  New Zealand, optimized by international tax
  agreements
• 100 tax deductibility for RD
• One of the lowest average tariff rates in the
  world

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ICT in New Zealand

• New Zealand is regarded as one of the most
  innovative, entrepreneurial countries in the
  world. Its pioneering, can-do attitude continues
  to allow this tiny (only four million people)
  country to continually punch well above its
  weight in global markets. It is home to a number
  of companies that are currently leading the world
  in a variety of market sectors - including GPS
  and radio communications - and is increasingly
  recognised for its creative technology such as
  the Weta Digital solutions in the Lord of the
  Rings trilogy.

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• Often a test bed for emerging technologies, New
  Zealand is a country of early-adopters with one
  of the world's highest rates of internet, mobile
  phone and electronic transfer technologies.

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2. Major Issues facing the use and/or growth of
ICT in New Zealand
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Broadband in NZ

• High Cost
• Low penetration
• Poor government backing, either winner takes all
  or fence sitting
• Relative High cost countries with higher costs
  Czech Republic, Greece and Estonia

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Current state in NZ

• Power of the old state owned phone companies to
  sustain their monopolies in anti-competitive ways
• Daunting competition issues inherent in network
  industries with many bottleneck facilities
• Necessity for interconnection
• Vertical integration of dominant players
• Radio spectrum administration
• Number administration
• Cell sites
• Without strong regulation, ie Government fence
  sitting, there is a high risk of winner takes
  all.

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Broadband prices 100kbit/s as of monthly
income
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3. ICT Best Practices or Innovations The Health
IT Cluster www.healthit.org.nz
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Health IT www.healthit.org.nz

• On line medical records subject to privacy
  issues
• Remote surgical services with on line specialist
  support
• On line radiography
• Video conferencing/diagnostics support rural
  practices
• On line communication between GPs, Pharmacists,
  etc

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The Health IT Cluster

• The cluster is made up of health industry
  software vendors, health care providers,
  government and university departments and other
  suppliers and health professionals, all dedicated
  to working together in New Zealand and in global
  markets to improve patient and community health
  care through better use of information and
  telecommunication technology

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The Health IT cluster

• has a rapidly growing list of products equal to,
  and in some instances better than international
  alternatives, and that the Health IT Clusters
  products are very cost-competitive. Several
  products from the cluster have technology
  leadership and some also have international
  market share leadership (or are challenging for
  it) in the following market segments

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• EMR/EHR systems
• Primary care systems
• Disease management
• Decision support
• Clinical information repositories
• Browser based portals
• Dental software
• Pharmacy
• Radiology systems
• www-based hospital clinical applications
• National health data networks
• HL7 communications and integration tools
• Clinical audit
• Departmental pathology (such as anatomical
  pathology)

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Health IT Industry Facts

• The typical growth rate of a successful health IT
  company is 50-200
• New Zealands forecast annual revenue is more
  than NZ 110 million, of which 70 million is
  made up of export revenue
• Health IT occupies 12 of NZs computer
  services/software sales
• The expected growth rate of this industry is more
  than 70.
• Over 1000 people are employed in health IT
• New Zealand is a very advanced country in health
  IT infrastructure. For instance, it has a single
  national patient identifier system, adverse
  medical reaction system, a nationwide health data
  network.
• 90 of all General Practitioners have an EMR
  system
• 95 of electronic laboratory and radiology
  results are delivered via the data network and
  many more areas of e-enablement in the health
  enterprise
• Web portal technologies are installed in 60 of
  New Zealand hospitals

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Sample of recent successes

• Use of JCC extends to Australias NT
• i-Health Clinician View Implemented at Lakeland
  Health
• Orion System Helps Middlemore Hospitals ER
  Delivers Better, Faster Care  
• Peninsula Health Goes Live with Orion System's
  Electronic Orders 
• Wangaratta District Base Hospital to Connect
  Clinicians Online
• Delphic Eclair in a Multiple Hospital and
  Laboratory Environment
• MedTech's Electronic Forms Solution
• Royal District Nursing Services of Victoria use
  JCD  

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Significant Products

• New Zealand-developed dental software accounted
  for 50 of all dental software sales in the
  United Kingdom in fiscal 2002
• Clinical guideline software that integrates
  directly with a physicians workflow tools
• World leading electronic breast cancer screening
  programme tracking systems
• The worlds first practice management system for
  ophthalmologists that integrates and interfaces
  with third party ophthalmology applications

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Innovation in Health IT

• A nationwide Health Index technology, with a
  unique identifier code for every patient
• The worlds first 'voice-to-text' digital
  dictation system, which can be used by clinicians
  remotely over the Internet.
• Remote/wireless patient information systems for
  mobile dental therapists that can communicate via
  modem or cellular networks
• Centralised, automated electronic coordination of
  region-wide disease management projects, across
  multiple remote providers. Currently used for
  childhood immunisation, diabetes and hepatitis B
  management programmes in New Zealand
• Nationwide health data networks, connecting
  hospitals, laboratories, radiology services and
  primary care physicians. In New Zealand, 90 of
  primary care physicians and 100 of laboratories
  communicate via a secure health data network
  every day
• World leading biomechanics systems are being
  developed by New Zealand universities

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The Worlds First

• commercial HL7 and XML clinical messaging
  toolkit, now sold to hospitals and software
  vendors worldwide
• voice-to-text digital dictation system, which
  can be used by clinicians remotely over the
  internet
• practice management system for ophthalmologists
  that integrates and interfaces with third party
  ophthalmology applications

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Bruce McLean MNZCSPresident_at_nzcs.org.nz

• www.nzcs.org.nz