Read about how the Digital Enablement Programme is helping improve people’s access to general practice, and other community health services.
Digital enablement stories
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- A number of primary and community care providers have received support from the Ministry’s Digital Enablement Programme to help them improve people’s access to general practice, and other community health services. Read more
- Waitaha Primary Health is using a multi-faceted, whānau ora approach to support people in their rural communities who find it harder to access health care. Read more
- DIGIFALE is a unique approach with the Pacific community that builds people’s digital literacy and then supports them to use this knowledge to access health and other online services. Read more
- Taranaki kaupapa Māori health and social services provider Tui Ora is developing a digital health hub in Waitara. The aim of the project – Tatai Ora – is to improve connectivity and provide accessible health care for Waitara-based Māori and vulnerable people. Read more
- Technology is enabling Peke Waihanga to take its artificial limb service to the community, using 3D scanning and printing approaches. Read more
- Lower Hutt’s Te Omanga Hospice is testing a suite of digital approaches, with the goal of removing barriers to access to their services for those in need. Read more
- APHG’s Southern Community Laboratories, and the South Island regional Hepatitis C group are working on a project that brings together digital and telehealth tools to support a mobile test and treat clinical service for people with hepatitis C. Read more
- The combined Asian population is predicted to be New Zealand’s second largest group within the next five years. But interpreter services have not kept up with this growth, and some Asian people being unable to access gambling and mental health and addiction support services as a result. Read more
- Tuku Iho – sharing intergenerational knowledge in maternal and child wellbeing – is a new app that will be a resource for whānau hapū, māma hāpu and māma hou. The app, which is under development, is framed from a te ao Māori perspective. Read more
- Ministry of Health Digital Enablement funding will provide IT and digital device support for the new role of diabetes kaitautoko, being introduced in Taranaki. Read more
- Mid-North health services provider the Ngāti Hine Health Trust is undertaking a project that will enable people with cardiovascular disease to monitor their own health, in places that suit them. Read more
- Nurse Maude is trialling a remote health support and monitoring service – Hauora Tūhono – that also aims to reduce isolation for older people living in Canterbury. Read more
- ProCare Health Ltd, the country’s largest primary health organisation, is trialling an online service that will enable high-needs patients to easily find another GP if theirs is unavailable. Read more
- K’aute Pasifika and Pinnacle Ventures, both based in Hamilton, have teamed up to support people and their families to monitor, understand and manage their diabetes. Read more
- A Taranaki-based primary care diagnostic service will pilot the provision of cardio-respiratory diagnostic monitors to primary care. Read more
- St John is trialling an easy-to-use, home-based digital telehealth and monitoring service for people with uncontrolled hypertension (high blood pressure). Read more
- Kaupapa Māori primary health provider Te Piki Oranga, based at the top of the South Island, will be introducing telehealth throughout its health services to help remove the barriers some whānau in the region face when trying to access health services. Read more
- Three young innovators are trialling a way to make it easier for people to enrol in general practice. Fourth year medical student Theresa McLean is the director of Telesphoros Tapui Ltd, which has received funding from the Ministry of Health’s Digital Enablement Programme. Read more