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Harbour Health and CHS are really proud to announce that the GASP software tool (Giving Asthma Support to Patients) has been selected as a finalist in the annual New Zealand Focus on Health Challenge,
This annual business development challenge is to help fast track commercialisation of the New Zealand health market. It gives participants the chance to be connected to a network of influential health and business professionals in the United States and New Zealand, including investors, partners and buyers. The Challenge is designed to stimulate new product development, innovation, commercialisation and collaboration within New Zealand’s healthcare industry.
The GASP tool was selected as a finalist from an initial field of over 100 entries, which was narrowed down to the 10 finalists that represent world-leading health solutions which are capable of being marketed in the United States, the largest health market in the world. The judges commented that the calibre and innovation shown in the entries received has been staggering and they are examples of some of the world-leading health solutions being developed in this country.
Over the next six months the finalists will embark on an exhilarating journey. Their market readiness preparations include activities that will draw on the advice and expertise of the extensive Challenge Network and include one-on-one time with The Challenge's elite group of sponsors. With this invaluable assistance our finalists will be well prepared to tackle the world’s largest health market.
The web-based GASP tool is believed to be the first of its kind and was developed over a two year period by Harbour Health’s respiratory manager Wendy McNaughton and solution architect, Murray Speight from Comprehensive Health Services. The tool has been approved by Professor D. Robin Taylor and the Asthma and Respiratory Foundation.
Giving Asthma Support to Patients (GASP) is a web based, clinical assessment and decision support tool, for improved management of asthma. It also enables the differential diagnosis of asthma and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) which is crucial for correct treatment of both conditions. Participants in the programme receive nurse consultations on dealing with asthma every few months. It produces a personalised individual take home document incorporating trigger advice, medication review and an action plan for both adults and children at the time of consultation. Research has shown that better assessment and long term management of asthma conditions will significantly improve health outcomes.
This is backed by measured outcomes from the use of GASP which includes a reduction in hospital admissions by 76 percent; a reduction in emergency visits by 58 percent, improved expiratory peak flow (56 percent) and a reduction in oral steroid usage (46 percent) in the GASP managed population.
GASP has been developed based on New Zealand, British and United States guidelines, and is designed for use by family physicians, respiratory nurses and trained respiratory therapists.
For further information pleaae contact: info@harbourhealth.org.nz
Smokefree Communities
World Smokefree Day 2011
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In collaboration with Pacific Quit, Waitemata DHB, and ARPHS the Smokefree Communities Team manned an information and Lung Age testing booth at Westfield Glenfield on the Thursday before World Smokefree Day. Click here for more information on the Smokefree day.
Inter-Practice Display and ATM Usage Competition
Packs were sent out to all Harbour Health Practices on 16 May with information and suggestions to entice them to take part in an inter-Practice competition. Practices were invited to use the promotional goodies in their pack to create a themed display, take a photo of it and email it in, along with a short paragraph to go before the juding panel to win one of three COPD-6 Monitors kindly donated by John Sherlock from Boehringer Ingelheim (the prize also inclued John providing morning tea to the winning practices).
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ICE Campaign - a message from
St John's Ambulance
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We all carry our mobile phones with names and numbers stored in its memory. If we were to be involved in an accident or were taken ill, the people attending us would have our mobile phone but wouldn't know who to call. Yes, there are hundreds of numbers stored but which one is the contact person in case of an emergency?
Hence this 'ICE' (In Case of Emergency) Campaign.
The concept of 'ICE' is catching on quickly. It is a method of contact during emergency situations. As mobile phones are carried by the majority of the population, all you need to do is store the number of a contact person or persons who should be contacted during emergency under the name 'ICE' ( In Case Of Emergency).
The idea was thought up by a paramedic who found that when he went to the scenes of accidents there were always mobile phones with patients but they didn't know which number to call. He therefore thought that it would be a good idea if there was a nationally recognized name for this purpose.
In an emergency situation, Emergency Service personnel and hospital staff would be able to quickly contact the right person by simply dialing the number you have stored as 'ICE'. *
It really could save your life, or put a loved one's mind at rest.
For more than one contact name simply enter ICE1, ICE2 and ICE3 etc.
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