{"id":4765,"date":"2020-12-17T22:22:34","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T22:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orionhealth-blog.local\/?p=4765"},"modified":"2024-11-25T23:48:14","modified_gmt":"2024-11-25T23:48:14","slug":"what-can-a-national-child-health-platform-mean-for-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orionhealth.com\/nz\/blog\/what-can-a-national-child-health-platform-mean-for-new-zealand\/","title":{"rendered":"What can a national child health platform mean for New Zealand?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The early years of a child\u2019s life are very important for their health and&nbsp;development. Children aged&nbsp;0-6&nbsp;years old are entitled to many universal health checks, which ensure that children have a healthy development.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, information sharing between child health&nbsp;care&nbsp;providers is primarily relationship-based&nbsp;and&nbsp;health checks done by multiple specialty organisations are not connected and held in silos.&nbsp;These silos make it impossible to identify patterns of those children who are unfortunately falling between the \u201csystem\u201d cracks or produce system-level insights and reporting.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>No national system exists in order to share data in real-time. Families&nbsp;must&nbsp;repeatedly share their details; providers lose contact with families and children miss out on timely healthcare.&nbsp;<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Children are lost in the system and miss out on many universal health checks&nbsp;<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Unfortunately, some children miss out on these routine health checks, particularly those administered in the first 1000 days.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Failure to track milestones can sometimes lead to severe episodes of ill health, leading to increased utilisation of emergency services and hospital admissions, and, for some, life-long harm and disability.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What can we do at the national level to ensure no child is lost in the system and every child has access to the care they deserve?<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">One national information platform for children<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Orion Health\u2019s Amadeus&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/orionhealth.com\/\/nz\/products\/coordinate\/child-milestone-tracking\/\">National Child Health Information Platform <\/a>(NCHIP)<\/strong>&nbsp;is&nbsp;a&nbsp;national child&nbsp;health&nbsp;information&nbsp;platform that tracks&nbsp;milestone achievement for&nbsp;children aged between&nbsp;0-6&nbsp;years old. The platform tracks and progresses through health milestones and collates siloed health information into a single integrated dataset.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ensuring every child receives universal health services<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>All children are automatically enrolled into the platform via the Maternity File or National Health Index feed.&nbsp;So, parents can rest assured their child is being tracked and monitored for healthy development.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Children whose families move geographically in New Zealand, have their information follow them; helping child healthcare providers to identify children, track&nbsp;and monitor milestone progress.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Benefits of&nbsp;adopting&nbsp;child&nbsp;milestone&nbsp;tracking&nbsp;at a national&nbsp;level&nbsp;<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Connecting all child healthcare providers<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By bringing siloed child health information into a single integrated dataset,&nbsp;NCHIP&nbsp;enables better coordination of patient care. It ensures the safe and appropriate sharing of information by enabling healthcare services to better track, monitor, and support at-risk or vulnerable groups in the community.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As health information is readily available to front-line staff and clinicians, this&nbsp;helps&nbsp;improve&nbsp;efficiencies&nbsp;and effectiveness by reducing clinician time spent on hunting for information, freeing up more time to be spent on care delivery.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Regional consistency for improved child healthcare delivery<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NCHIP is presently in use across Northland,&nbsp;Waitemat\u0101&nbsp;and Auckland District Health Boards, and&nbsp;has around 170,000 children currently enrolled with 4.9 million milestones being monitored.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a cloud-first platform, NCHIP is capable of handling data for all children in New Zealand, allowing inter-regional collaboration and regional consistency.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Healthcare providers now have&nbsp;access to a service that provides far&nbsp;greater analytical insight,&nbsp;to inform continuous improvements in service delivery and the ability to determine future areas of focus.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Want to learn more?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/orionhealth.com\/nz\/solution\/child-health\/\">National Child Health Information Platform<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/orionhealth.com\/nz\/contact\/\">Contact an expert<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><em>This blog is the third in our series on child milestone tracking. Our next blog will discuss the implications of gaps in child health data.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read our previous blog on <a href=\"\/nz\/mapping-your-childs-journey-with-milestones\/\">why tracking child health milestones is important<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The early years of a child\u2019s life are very important for their health and&nbsp;development. 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