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Organisational aspirin for the Medical Council
11 August 2010
Medical Council CEO Philip Pigou talks to Computerworld about the implementation of MedSys, a practitioner registration and workflow solution he describes as "organisational aspirin" for the way it has transformed the Council's operations.
Says Pigou: “The new system is more about workflow. It is complex and has taken us longer to get that right.
“We’re now focusing on building online applications and developing new processes and workflow to support how we do business.”
He describes the benefits of the new system as “organisational aspirin”.
“We’d had the old system since 1999. It really needed replacing. We can now provide a much better level of services. Doctors can now apply electronically rather than on paper for things like their annual practising certificate. We’re also able to get things like workforce data and professional development data.”
Pigou says another major benefit is registering overseas doctors who apply to work in New Zealand. “We register 1200 a year. We can now capture information about their qualifications. Within a year, we should have most key things online.” The Medical Council has an internal IT team of seven servicing its 60 employees. It has an annual budget of around $10 million funded by levy.
As a result of the MedSys project, Optimation is pitching its online registration and business rules automation capability to other organisations that need to manage membership of an industry or of trade professionals.
Read the full article at Computerworld or read Optimation's press release on the MedSys project.
Download a case study on the Medical Council project (PDF, 120Kb).
Contact us to find out more about Optimation's offerings in Online Registration and Business Rules Automation.
