Presented by Russell Simpson Executive Director Allied Health, Scientific and Technical, Wairarapa and Hutt Valley District Health Boards

1. eForms in Community Nursing and
Allied Health
Pilot brought to you by:
Community Nursing and Allied Health @ Hutt Valley DHB
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3. What if all records and patient interactions
went Paperless?

4. AMS mobile forms &
App are helping to
achieve this

5. What are we doing?
• Transforming the way our District Nurses and
Occupational Therapists work by using tablet
and electronic form technology.
• Reviewing the findings of a live trial of tablets
and electronic forms deployed in community
health at Hutt Valley DHB and how this
impacted patient care

6. Why are we doing this?
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To improve the quality of patient assessments
Using technology as an enabler
Minimise duplication of effort
More productive, mobile workforce
To minimise or reduce cost
To enhance patient privacy and protection of
information

7. The idea
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Meeting with vendor (Gen-i)
Discussion of idea(s) – client (Hutt Valley DHB)
Mutually beneficial projects targeted
Key enablers to test the theory discussed
Discussion between clinical staff and vendor
Vendor leverages off suppliers (i.e Samsung
and AMS)
• Innovation without compromising financials

9. The workshop(s)
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Clinical engagement with vendor facilitation
Clinician empowerment to affect change
Critical process to engage staff in the design
Clinical staff ownership over the pilot
Design of various templates

10. Printed Document
On Device

11. Printed Document
On Device

12. Printed Document
On Device

13. Outpatient Feedback

14. Key product Lists and
Assessors feed into
forms

15. Mark wounds

16. Patient & Assessor
signatures on
device

17. Supplier Equipments lists and form entry
with ability to directly email from the device

19. Tablets are Evolving to be used as Efficient Medical Tools
iPad, and Tablets Increase Provider Efficiency & Decrease Costs

20. Special thanks to
Susan Philps – gen-i
Rory Faughnan – gen-i
Ruth Bruce – AMS Kinross
Margaret Woodcock – Nurse Manager
Bernadine Coddington - ACNM
Alice Dwyer – Community OT
Megan Dicker – Community OT
Tina Ririnui – Director Clinical Support Services