Mark Edwards
Mark is an Information Technology Principal Architect with an extensive 25 years’ experience in all aspects of IT system software development across the whole project life cycle. He has hands-on architectural, solution design and implementation skills, from different roles in healthcare, finance, insurance and retail. Mark’s passion for the difference IT can make in the health sector is infectious. This is amplified by his ability to design and communicate his solutions and the difference they will make, in both technical and real language. At SimplHealth Mark has been instrumental in the success of the roll-out of the National e-Prescription service in New Zealand and the eRx Script Exchange national e-prescription service in Australia, which now provides information for Australia’s national medication repository for the PCEHR (Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record).
IT Innovations in General Practice - Better Healthcare from Collaboration & Sharing of Information Pre-conference Workshop (Repeated)  Thursday, 12 June 2014 Start 8:30am Duration: 120mins Room 1 Start 11:00am Duration: 120mins Room 1 As part of the ‘IT Innovations in General Practice’ Workshop, Kate and Mark will take participants through a real patient’s journey through our health system. This journey highlights the myriad of challenges facing patients and health care professionals in trying to achieve optimal clinical outcomes. GPs are a critical part of this journey, as the healthcare professionals who have the most regular contact with patients. GPs are also the initiators of relationships with other professionals, such as pharmacists, public and private specialists, and allied health providers. Efficient interaction between all healthcare professionals helps provide seamless and improved care for any one patient. A solution that supports this collaboration and sharing of information is vital to the delivery of better healthcare, medicines adherence and patient outcomes. Drawing on their combined expertise and in-depth knowledge of patient behaviours and health IT, Kate and Mark will re-create the patient journey to demonstrate the potential for better healthcare outcomes through increased collaboration, shared responsibility and the secure, and efficient sharing of information.