Practice Management Systems (PMS) review findings: Detailed report

Abstract

This document forms part of the Primary Care Practice Management System (PMS) evaluation. It contains vendor self-assessments to detailed questions across the five key focus areas for the 2011 PMS systems review. It includes a commentary and assessment of the vendor responses and systems undertaken by an independent panel working with the Patients First Programme and the National Institute for Health Innovation (NIHI). The report is designed to be a “consumer style” review whereby an independent panel reviewed responses to structured questions across a subset of areas for each of the four New Zealand General Practice PMS systems (Houston’s VIP 2000, Medtech’s Medtech 32, MyPractice and Intrahealth’s Profile). The review is, by necessity, limited in scope and will be supplemented by further areas of focus in future reviews.