Allied Health Identifying our voice: can you hear us?

Rebecca George Occupational Therapist

Clinical Lead - Allied Health Informatics

Take a walk with me…

Alcohol and Drug Clinicians

Audiologists Dental Therapists Dietitians Genetic Associates Needs Assessors Occupational Therapists Optometrists Orthoptists Psychotherapy

Physiotherapy Play Specialists Pharmacists Pharmacy Technicians Podiatrists Psychologists Social Workers Speech Language

Therapists Visiting

Neurodevelopmental Therapists

What do we do? Rehabilitate We enable Provide connections Maintain their health status

How do we do this?

Focus on the patient’s needs Strongly collaborative Broad perspective of patient journey

Our significance We enable the patient in their situation

Reduce health service need

We create safe living situationsMaintain patients in their communities

Our significance

We facilitate their potential Increase their participation in daily activities

We support their healthy statusReduce risks at home, work, in the community

If we benefit the patient then we reduce the service need. If we solely benefit the service then are we perpetuating the patient’s need?

Helping us to help you

Clarity Greater coordination Efficacy

Making the most of Allied Health Correlation of prior AH input to

readmissions Positive and negative

Correlation between patient flow and AH input Service demand, timing, activity type

Correlation between demographics and community AH service access

“There isn’t someone else in a room who will do this for us,…AHPs must be in the race too…[we need to] set informatics and technology right back center stage of clinical practice”.

Middleton K, 2012.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZ4Ks_rhacw

Internationally

InternationallyScotlandEnglandWalesAustralia

Nationally Ground up Approach Focus on:

Activity contentCase weightingCasemix

Nationally

What are we trying to achieve? Engagement via ownership

Create a platform for comparative data

Give visibility to staff and services‘right person, right time, right place, right intervention’

Facilitate quality measures

What are the challenges?

Engagement with key stakeholders

Collection of data - ‘A01’ Integration – ‘passive data

extraction’ Relevant reporting at all levels

To benefit the patient we need the information

Enhancing scope Consistency Availability

Peate I, 2015

Can you hear us?

We are... Essential to effective Patient care Different and distinct Valuable contributors to Informatics Keen to use data to improve Patient’s

journey

Questions

Rebecca GeorgeRebecca.George@cdhb.health.nz