Hospitals patients in the lower North Island should find doctors and nurses have better information on their prior care following a project that has been kicked off by the region’s six district health boards to integrate health information technology systems. Capital & Coast ICT director Stuart Wakefield is heading the project, which he said was a step on the way to creating a national system of online electronic health records by 2014. Mr Wakefield said hospital staff would be able to get a single view of patient information that was stored on multiple software systems in the region through a portal they could access with one logon and password. “Most of this information is able to be shared today



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