Gen-i hires former CIO to push healthcare business

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Ex-Hawke's Bay DHB CIO joins as head of healthcare division

By Computerworld Staff | Auckland | Friday, 29 October, 2010 | 7 Comments

Gen-i has signalled its intentions to play a part in the upgrading of New Zealand’s health IT and networking infrastructure by appointing former Hawke’s Bay District Health Board CIO Jo-Ann Jacobson as health business development manager.

The role is a newly-created one at Gen-i.

In a statement announcing the appointment, Gen-i CEO Chris Quin says the Telecom subsidiary is “aiming to support the Government’s strategy to regionalise and nationalise information systems and move to a single federated electronic health record by 2014.

“Our vision is to provide the health sector with cloud-based services that connect health organisations and provide access to clinical information anywhere, anytime.
“We’re working with a number of health providers and ICT partners to identify areas where we can deliver valuable technologies and service using our cloud capabilities.”

Jacobson was with the Hawke’s Bay District Health Board for three years, and has also held the position of IT service manager at Air New Zealand.

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At least someone there should be able to get her phone to work.. Good luck with the laptop though :)
Posted by Old Pickle at 23:18:09 on October 29, 2010

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Has the Cloud not been here forever? Good luck with that. Datacom seem to have the vertical sewn up? Go the kiwi private firm...
Posted by Anonymous at 22:53:39 on October 29, 2010

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Has the Cloud not been here forever? Gold help us all if Datacom have it sewn up!
Posted by Dangercom! at 17:32:55 on October 31, 2010

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Has the Cloud not been here forever? Get off your hobby horse, Datacom is not privately owned, the state owns a significant portion of it - private does not only mean not on the stock exchange.
Posted by Anonymous at 16:34:27 on October 30, 2010

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Storm Cloud No doubt Tom B will have something to say about that cloud....
Posted by Anonymous at 17:35:36 on October 29, 2010

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Pie In The Sky ...and exactly what are these 'cloud capabilities'? The same ones that Gen-i's parent company, Telecom, are NOT using! Highly confidential E-Health applications, services and data must be the worst imaginable fit for the cloud.
Posted by Anonymous at 12:13:18 on October 29, 2010

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Pie In The Sky I see it more as positioning by Gen-i to make itself relevant to the Health Sector. However, I do not think that the Ministry of Health has the capacity or would want to build infastruture to support a nation or federated regional systems so they will need to go to market. Rationalisation of DHB's may lead to far fewer regionalised and federated systems for primary, secondary and tertiary providers with national repositories for access by the general public or community based providers.

Posted by henareho at 12:36:08 on October 29, 2010

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