Ministry of Health

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Ministry of Health November 2006 Brendan
Kelly Chief Advisor Health Information Strategy
and Policy
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• Distributed Health Event Summaries
• New Zealands electronic health information
  direction
• Distributed and federated
• Not centralised
• Depends on
• Accessibility/Connectivity
• Clinical information standardisation
• Patient/Recipient Identity
• Provider identity
• Key for
• Clinical information
• Clinical governance
• Administrative information
• Policy, strategy and national planning
• Research