vanWyk describes that as a minimum viable product that Te Whatu Ora - NZ Health Partnerships is now looking to productionise. “We are very proud that our application was used to help Te Whatu Ora do the budget and we have seen the real value in that application,” she says. The analytics tool means that if finance and reporting hierarchies change, they can build the new hierarchy and remap the existing cost centres, without touching the ERP system themselves, which would be a hugely costly and lengthy process. “It means we can be really agile and flexible and respond quickly to requests, without touching the integrity of our data sitting underneath,” vanWyk explains. There are huge efficiency gains to be made by being able to see data at a national level, such as replenishing from central warehouses and viewing where stock is sitting and where demand is. “Analytics helps us draw the data out and consolidate those views because they need that high level data at a national level,” she says. Data sharing TeWhatu Ora - NZ Health Partnerships has completed a sharing exercise with HealthSource, the organisation which does
were legally in place, the technical sharing of data was done “in the blink of an eye”, Salzmann says. “By linking data sources together, HealthSource have been able to retain a single source of truth by keeping data in the area where it is recorded, rather than duplicating it into another database. “We just shared accounts and suddenly they had access to run reports across our data and we have access to run reports across their data.” NZ Health Partnerships can look at spend for the Northern region over a period of time, without copying any information into their own environment. The organisation wants to enable this for all the districts to do their reporting. “They can continue to run their business and we can continue to do our work without duplicating any of that effort, by linking databases together,” vanWyk explains. “We want to be contributors into the sector by ensuring the data is accurate and reliable, so other people can draw on and get benefits from it,” she says. A custodian approach means if a user wanted to overlay financial inventory information with patient information or ward occupancy, in order to do comparisons or planning, they could be given self-service access to this data without having to build major pipelines between systems. Salzmann says, “the potential is vast as the data is out there, but currently
“Whatever we do, we always aim to make life easier for users and to help improve patient experiences – enabling better decision making through data insights.”
Jakkie vanWyk, Head, FPIM Implementation and Data
procurement for the four Northern Region Districts.
HealthSource uses the visualisation tool and the same data solution, so once data sharing agreements
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