January – February 2016
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Around the Nation
- New $72 million Outpatients facility for Christchurch
- Southern Cross North Harbour Hospital undergoes major expansion
- Hawke’s Bay mental health inpatient unit opens
- Whangarei Hospital’s new $9.8m maternity unit
- Wellington/Wairarapa region lab officially opens
- New sky bridge development in plan to expand patient care to Waitemata community
- Good progress on quarterly health targets
- Waitemata DHB wins national award for patient experience programme
- Free Wi-Fi now available at Northland DHB sites
- Green light for loan for more LED light upgrades
- Dargaville Hospital celebrates 60th birthday
Community
- Digital medical certificates make system simpler
- Organ donation and transplantation increased further in 2015
- 2015 delivers more births
- Final stage of Wellington, Kapiti and Hutt Valley modernised school dental service launched
- Mobile surgical bus visits Whanganui
- Steady As You Go fitness programme a winner with Whanganui’s elderly
- New ‘virtual medical receptionist’ service to help South Westland
- Children in therapy receive generous community donations
Information Technology
- Orion Health secures major French contracts
- TerriSanté project in Paris
- eTICSS project in Burgundy
- Orion Health partners with Cognizant, the largest US health insurance software vendor
- Orion Health boosts offering to UK’s largest health board
- Victim Support turns to technology to help those in need
- McKesson ranks highly in health industry report
Products and Services
Pharmacy and Pharmaceuticals
- Better care for people on multiple medications
- GSK first in New Zealand with new business model for the pharmaceutical industry
Research
- Initiative launched to support very large patients
- National Science Challenge tackles childhood obesity, learning and mental health
- Contact between children monitored in world-first infection study
- Revolutionising heart disease diagnosis
- Slow global progress on stillbirth prevention
- Antipsychotic drug clozapine found to have significant gastrointestinal side effects
- Fracture risk more important than bone density
- First study of South Island Pasifika heart health
- One in five lie to their doctor
- How and who you exercise with affects your mental wellbeing
- Better nutrition policies needed for children
- Dads can help boost immunization rates
- Can blood pressure medication stop breast cancer?
- Summer students trial wearable fitness technology in surgical ward and assess satisfaction with mental health crisis service
People
Publications and Resources
- Agencies need to change response to family violence: Report
- Data shows continuing disparity between gout prevalence and treatment
- New online tool supports healthy food in schools
- Scholarship student explores response to Whanganui DHB cancer information booklets
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