Digital Health Insights with NZ Health IT

EP55: Originally from the UK, Christine moved to Godzone nearly 15 years ago and has continued her passion for providing quality healthcare services through Hamilton-based roles at the Waikato District Health Board, LinkPeople and now at Pinnacle Ventures.  Christine talks about her journey so far, what drives her commitment to improving the health and wellbeing of others in need and shares her vision of healthcare in the future.

You can find out more about Christine here - linkedin.com/in/christine-hall and visit the website of Pinnacle Ventures - https://www.ventures.health.nz/ and of course can contact Scott directly at [email protected] and check out the NZHIT website at https://www.nzhit.nz/ Please make sure to subscribe to this podcast show, share with your friends and colleagues, leave a comment and provide a rating. This all helps to grow the show, spread the word and share the love far and wide!

EP54: Pt 05 "eMental Health Series" - Marshall is a long time tech entrepreneur who has turned his skills towards helping to solve problems in the mental health & addiction space, a part of the health sector that he has a specific passion about. So, he's set Loffty with the goal of uplifting one million people through gold standard mental health assessment. You'll be fascinated by his story that has led Marshall to this point and how he's come up with this paradigm-changing approach to mental wellness.

You can find out more about Loffty here - https://www.loffty.com/nz/and of course can contact Scott directly at [email protected]and check out the NZHIT website at https://www.nzhit.nz/Please make sure to subscribe to this podcast show, share with your friends and colleagues, leave a comment and provide a rating. This all helps to grow the show, spread the word and share the love far and wide!

EP53: Following the recent acquisition of Medtech, Geoff has started putting into place his plans to transform the company, and along with it the primary health sector.  Back in episode 39 Geoff touched on what he has up his sleeve and now we're seeing the early phases of this plan being put into action.

Read more about ALEX here - https://www.nzhit.nz/news/transformation-never-by-halves. Check out his webpage for more info - https://medtechglobal.com/nz/and you can contact Scott directly at [email protected]and check out the NZHIT website at https://www.nzhit.nz/Please make sure to subscribe to this podcast show, share with your friends and colleagues, leave a comment and provide a rating. This all helps to grow the show, spread the word and share the love far and wide!

EP52: Harry, and Webtools Health, bring an entrepreneurial and innovative approach to health technology in New Zealand and increasingly off-shore as well.  Harry is also a NZHIT elected board member and he talks about his own experience in health and wider tech fields as well as the direction of digital health in New Zealand. 

Based in Christchurch, New Zealand, Webtools are closely involved in the development of the local healthtech and tech innovation ecosystem, which is driving significant changes both locally, regionally and nationally.

For more information on Webtools Health go to their website - https://www.webtools.nz/and you can contact Scott directly at [email protected]and check out the NZHIT website at https://www.nzhit.nz/Please make sure to subscribe to this podcast show, share with your friends and colleagues, leave a comment and provide a rating. This all helps to grow the show, spread the word and share the love far and wide!

EP51: Having recently announced his resignation as the CEO of NZHIT, Scott answers questions from Kate about the key components of the role to provide insights to those who might be looking at applying for the position as the NZHIT Board commences the recruitment process to find Scott's replacement. Even if you're not wanting to be NZHIT's next CEO this episode will provide you with a look behind the outward facing work that Scott has done for the past 6+ years and you'll hear him talk about the important day-to-day effort that goes on behind the scenes.

Whilst Scott doesn't depart NZHIT until mid-January 2021 this episode is an opportunity to capture his remarkable story that started in 2014 when he took a struggling membership organisation and turned it into the peak body for the health IT industry sector in New Zealand. You can contact Scott directly at [email protected]and check out the NZHIT website at https://www.nzhit.nz/

Interested in more information about the recruitment process for Scott's replacement then head to the job vacancy announcement on the NZHIT website and follow the links to the position description and job advertisement - https://www.nzhit.nz/news/nzhit-advertises-for-new-ceo

Please make sure to subscribe to this podcast show, share with your friends and colleagues, leave a comment and provide a rating. This all helps to grow the show, spread the word and share the love far and wide!

EP50: To mark the 50th episode Scott's special guest is Chandra Selvadurai who is the Managing Director of Pharmaco NZ and Australia (having been with the company for 24 years in total to date).  He's also a past chair of the Medical Technology Association of NZ and current co-chair of the Australia NZ Leadership Group's Health Technology Working Group.  Scott has huge respect for what Chandra has achieved, his understated way of going about getting things done in an extremely complex and difficult part of the health sector.

You can find out more about Pharmaco by visiting their website - https://pharmaco.co.nz/ - and you can contact Scott directly on [email protected]and check out the NZHIT website at https://www.nzhit.nz/ Please make sure to subscribe to this podcast show, share with your friends and colleagues, leave a comment and provide a rating.  This all helps to grow the show and share the love far and wide!

EP49: Covid-19 has been getting blamed for many things including the increase in mental health issues, depression and suicide but the fact is these were already trending at frighteningly high levels before the pandemic came upon us.  In this episode, Scott talks with Lance Burdett who shares his life's journey from being a builder, reaching the top level in the New Zealand Police Force and then setting up WARN International as he saw first-hand the rising demand for his services and unique way of delivering them.  Lance wears many hats from being a renowned author, media consultant, mentor, speaker and all round top bloke.

EP48: Scott Herschberger originally hails from Colorado and he shares his journey to New Zealand and discusses the solutions provided by Health Metrics to the disabilities, aged care, in-home and primary care sectors in the New Zealand and Australian health systems.  Originating in Melbourne, Australia, Health Metrics has developed an impressive stable of digital health solutions and is experiencing resulting growth in the markets it operates in.  For more information - https://healthmetrics.co.nz/about-us-ecase-software-health-metrics-new-zealand/and https://healthmetrics.com.au/

As usual, you can contact Scott directly on [email protected] and check out the NZHIT website at https://www.nzhit.nz/ Please make sure to subscribe to this podcast show, share with your friends and colleagues, leave a comment and provide a rating.  This all helps to grow the show and share the love far and wide!

EP47: Hot on the heels of the inaugural NZHIT Summit held on the 29th of October 2020, Darren joins Scott in this episode to talk about the disruption caused by Covid-19 especially when it comes to the plans he had for the National Health Information Platform (nHIP).  Darren provides background to what happened to the nHIP business case as a result of New Zealand going into full lockdown in early March 2020 and an update on plans for the future.

Darren was keynote speaker at the Summit and his presentation provided an excellent update on nHIP, what it is, what it isn't, it's purpose and where it's headed.  It's excellent that he was able to also chat with Scott for this episode as it's important for listeners to understand what's happening with this very important piece of work.  Darren is also going to be the guest on the next session of "Spill the Beans with Scott" where he'll provide more detailed information on nHIP.  This is going to be a virtual Teams webinar on the 18th of November from 11am to 12pm.  Check out the events page on our website for further information on how to request an invite - www.nzhit.nz

As usual, you can contact Scott directly on [email protected] and please make sure to subscribe to this podcast show, share with your friends and colleagues, leave a comment and provide a rating.  This all helps to grow the show and share the love far and wide!

EP46: This is the 10th episode in our virtual-telehealth series with Dr Richard Medlicott as Scott's guest where they discuss the challenges faced at primary care level in New Zealand when all GPs had to close their doors and "go virtual" almost overnight in the first Covid-19 lockdown that commenced in March 2020.  Richard is a highly regarded GP with a busy practice in Wellington (NZ's capital city) as well having a high level of tech expertise, a former medical director at the Royal College of GPs and being actively involved in a number of digital health initiatives.

You'll enjoy this episode with Richard as he openly shares his knowledge and expertise along with his thoughts on the future of healthcare in this country as well as offshore.  For more information, resources, webinar recordings and much more please go to the NZ Telehealth Resource Centre website - https://www.telehealth.org.nz/. As usual, you can contact Scott directly on [email protected] and you can check out the NZHIT website at https://www.nzhit.nz/.