Over the coming weeks, we'll be releasing some minor updates to the HealthPathways Admin System (Dot). Many of these updates won't work with Internet Explorer 8 and below. We're encouraging HealthPathways teams to check and upgrade their browsers to the latest version.

In response to recent international concerns, the Canterbury HealthPathways team have developed a Zika Virus pathway. To quickly localise this pathway for your region, please contact your lead writer via DOT.

This year has been a fantastic time of growth, with more regions joining the HealthPathways Community in the last twelve months. What a great encouragement it has been to see the enthusiasm with which HealthPathways has been taken up and used to make a real difference for patients and clinicians. In case you’re lacking in holiday reading, I've listed a few of the more interesting tongue-in-cheek Christmas journal papers for you to enjoy!

Auckland DHB improvement specialist, Paul Birch and the Auckland’s Starship Child Health Gastroenterology team recently received the “Health Excellence Award for Excellence in Community Health and Wellbeing”, for their transformation of the way the local healthcare system cares for children diagnosed with coeliac disease in Auckland. Patients and clinicians can now make better use of their time at Starship’s Gastroenterology Service thanks to the development of a new Coeliac Disease in Child...

Launched at the end of November, the pilot stage of the HealthPathways Provider Directory will test the system’s ability to manage provider information and publish it within HealthPathways.

Between Thursday 24th December and Monday 4th January, the Streamliners office will be open normal business hours and closed for the statutory holidays. However, most of the HealthPathways Writing Team will be taking a holiday.

On Wednesday 25 November, the Northland HealthPathways Team hosted a one-day seminar during which members from the HealthPathways Community introduced HealthPathways to local general practitioners and hospital clinicians.

Project Officer for Clinical Evidence Systems Development, Dr Dru Norriss, joins the HealthPathways Community in a new role that will oversee several clinical evidence projects, which will initially include ways to bring evidence into practice and integrate an online referencing system with HealthPathways

The roll out of the HealthPathways Provider Directory pilot next month is the first stage of providing regional HealthPathways teams with more hands-on control of their request/referral pages.

The New Zealand Productivity Commission has endorsed the Canterbury Health System approach to alliancing in its More Effective Social Services report released this month.

The Illawarra Shoalhaven HealthPathways website went live on 21 September with 30 clinical pathways, five resources, and two referral pages. The clinical pathways are predominantly in diabetes, haematology, chronic kidney disease, liver disease, and public health.

Ian Anderson, (CEO, Streamliners) introduces the HealthPathways Provider Directory - a significant new addition to the HealthPathways suite of tools. It will enable local HealthPathways teams to directly create and maintain service provider information that appears in HealthPathways.

The Canterbury HealthPathways Team recently carried out an online survey of general practitioners and practice nurses about the management of urinary incontinence in women. The organisers are keen to carry out this survey in other Australia and New Zealand HealthPathways regions and compare the results.

On 24 August 2015, Auckland Regional HealthPathways went live with 69 localised pages, including 20 clinical pathways covering Haematology disorders, Child Health, Cardiology, Diabetes, and Gynecology.

The Hunter New England HealthPathways Team was recently recognised for their outstanding work, winning two awards at the 2015 HNE Health Excellence Awards.