Members

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Current members of the Health Information Strategy Advisory Committee are:

Graeme Osborne (Chair)
Graeme is the General Manager, Information Management, ACC (October 2006 to present). Prior to this, he was the Group Manager, Information and Business Services, Statistics New Zealand (2001 to 2006). He has considerable experience working in the financial, health insurance and information technology fields. Graeme obtained a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Marketing from Canterbury University in 1986. He is a member of the Land Information New Zealand Audit Committee (2008 to present), a member of the e-GIF Management Committee (2003 to present), a trustee of the Computer Access New Zealand (CANZ) Trust, and a member of the Institute of Directors (2008 to present). He was a member of the Health Intranet Governance Board (1996 to 2000), a member of the Telecommunications User Association of New Zealand (TUANZ) Board (1996 to 2007), and a member of the Digital Strategy Advisory Group (2005 to 2008).

Dr Pim Allen
Dr Pim Allen is Chief Medical Officer of Southland District Health Board, where she is passionate about promoting shared clinical-management leadership and strengthening multi-disciplinary and multi-agency working. Pim first moved to Invercargill in 1978, having trained in general surgery in the UK; when her interests turned towards health care strategy and service development, she held medical leadership posts with the NHS Executive in the UK, Royal Perth Hospital in W Australia and Waikato DHB.

Pim’s qualifications include degrees in journalism and business.

Chai Chuah

Chai Chuah is the Chief Executive of the Hutt Valley District Health Board; a position held since August 2002. From 1990, Chai was with the Canterbury DHB in a variety of roles ranging from General Manager of Finance and Information Systems and Logistics to Acting Chief Executive for seven months during 2001.

Originally from Malaysia, Chai graduated from Canterbury University and is a member of the New Zealand Institute of Chartered Accountants.

Chai chairs a range of national and regional committees. They include the 21 DHBs CEO Information Group, National Steering Committee for the implementing of the Quality Improvement Committee programmes, Central Region Technical Advisory Services and Central Region Services Development Initiative Services Committee.

He is a member of the DHB CEOs Executive and was a member of the Ministry of Health National Capital Committee. He chaired the national steering committee charged with the development of the 2005 New Zealand Health Information Strategy.

Joanne Fitzpatrick
Jo Fitzpatrick is Director of Women's Health Action Trust, an organisation she joined as Women's Health Advocate and Policy Analyst early in 2002. Jo has skills in advocacy, policy analysis, research and writing. Since joining Women's Health Action she has focused on key public health issues from the consumer viewpoint.

Women's Health Action has long had an interest in health information Issues, particularly as they pertain to rights in health and disability services and issues of informed consent. We regularly submit on these issues and have been active participants in the HISAC processes and consultations around the action areas.

Jo has presented on consumer issues to Health Information NZ and assisted with the development of a HISAC Consumer Forum, facilitating the Auckland consultation. She is the consumer representative on the Health Information Standards Security and Authentication subcommittee.

Current representations

Womens Health Action Trust - Director
NGO Working Group - Chair
Aotearoa Consumer Collaboration Implementation Group - Chair
HIV Screening in Pregnancy Implementation group - Member
National Screening Unit Consumer Reference Group - Member
Health Information Advisory Committee - Security and Authentication- Member
Auckland Women's Health Council - Trustee
Organ Donation NZ

Jo originally trained as a dental nurse, has an MSC in Psychology and has worked as a researcher and evaluator in the Department of Psychiatry at Auckland University. For some of that time she worked with Dr John Raeburn, at the Community Health Centre, evaluating health promotion programmes. At this time, she did voluntary work as a sexuality educator for the Family Planning Association.

Dr Chris Hendry
Chris has been a nurse and a midwife in New Zealand for many years, having worked in a variety of settings and roles. Over the past 10 years Chris has worked on contract for a number of government health agencies and DHBs in service auditing, contract management and strategic planning. Chris has a particular interest in the provision of community based health services, particularly maternity and rural health services.

Chris is the Executive Director of the Midwifery and Maternity Provider Organisation, which provides ‘virtual’ practice management services to over 700 self-employed midwives and small maternity hospitals throughout New Zealand. In this role, she is involved in the development of the electronic maternity record.

Chris is also the founding director of the New Zealand Institute of Community Health Care (Nurse Maude Research Centre) which supports research projects focusing on developing and enabling the provision of health care in the community.

Photo of Dr Murray Milner.

Dr Murray Milner
Dr Milner spent most of his 37 years in the ICT industry in Telecom New Zealand, rising to become the Chief Technology Officer for Telecom, during the first half of this decade. In this role, Murray has overseen the transformation of the New Zealand Telecoms environment into a high performance IP core network offering leading edge services throughout the country. Murray now runs a busy consulting practice in New Zealand and works extensively with both central and local government on ICT strategy and infrastructure development. He has been advising on the Connected Health program for over two years. He is also a Director of Christchurch City Networks Limited, which is deploying a dark fibre infrastructure for the city of Christchurch. Murray travels extensively as part of his work and brings an international perspective, including both technology and economic benchmarks to his consulting practice to complement his extensive experience in New Zealand. He also has direct links with University research into the performance optimisation of broadband and IP networks and is guiding the development of leading edge tools for this purpose in his role as Chairman of MediaLab.

David Moore
David is Managing Director for LECG Asia-Pacific and heads up both the health industry practice group and the strategy practice for Asia Pacific. David is a Director of PHARMAC and the Crown Health Financing Agency. David has held a number of CEO and senior management positions in the health sector and lead the development of the WAVE health information strategy. His prior experience includes a range of strategic, policy and corporate advisory positions for the New Zealand Treasury, an investment bank and a London-based management consulting group.

David holds a Master of Commerce from the University of Auckland and a Diploma of Health Economics from the University of Tromso. He is a Chartered Accountant, a member of the Law and Economics Association and is a member of the Institute of Directors.

Dr Harry Pert
Dr Harry Pert is a GP at the Ranolf Medical Centre in Rotorua. Harry trained in London and moved to New Zealand in 1978, after working in the UK, Papua New Guinea and Australia. He has particular interests in children's health, and in the organisation and management of health services.

Elizabeth Plant
Elizabeth Plant is the Chief Pharmacist for the Taranaki District Health Board (DHB) responsible for the hospital pharmacy and Portfolio Manager for Funding and Planning overseeing the provision of all pharmaceutical services to the region. She is a member of the Safe Medication Management (SMM) Steering Group, the New Zealand Safe Quality Use of Medicines Committee (SQM) and the New Zealand DHBNZ Pharmacy Advisory Group (PAG). She was a founding member of the Hospital Pharmaceutical Advisory Committee (HPAC) for PHARMAC and a member of the Health Information Strategy Action Committee (HISAC) Sector Champions Group 2008.

She has recently been coordinator of the new National Services Framework for Pharmacists, which involved the development of five new pharmacist services including medicine review and she undertook ” The Analysis of Workforce and Service Delivery Models across New Zealand Hospital Pharmacies in 2001 and 2003”. She was the recipient of the National Supreme Award and the winner of the Innovation in Hospital Pharmacy Awards of the Zuellig /Pharmacy Today Awards in 2000 due to the implementation of Pyxis Automated Drug Distribution Systems.

During her 11 years at Taranaki, she has been responsible for the first installation of the Ascribe Pharmacy Computer System into the Southern Hemisphere, the first Pyxis Automated Drug Distribution installation into a New Zealand Hospital, and recently the first installation of Pyxis “cubies” and the Pyxis CII Controlled Drug System into the Asia Pacific region. Currently she is facilitating the implementation of a software solution for managing medicines reconciliation at Taranaki DHB.

She has also assisted in developing the business case for the Safe Medication Management Project (SMM) “Bar-Coding at the Bedside for Secondary Services”, announced by the Minster of Health in May 2007.

Nathan Torkington
Nathan Torkington ran the first web server in New Zealand, chaired the O'Reilly Open Source Convention and other O'Reilly conferences for over a decade. He runs Kiwi Foo Camp, co-wrote the best-selling Perl Cookbook, and lives in Leigh where he consults in the Asia-Pacific region on web and open source technology.

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