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Departments

IS Portfolio Management

The Information Services Portfolio Management Office is responsible for managing projects designed to improve key services and infrastructure at Waikato DHB.

The office is currently managing more than 30 projects and is responsible for day-to-day project management and the successful completion of IS projects.

IS also has an Architecture Team, and a planning function within the office.


Service delivery and support

The Service Delivery and Support teams are responsible for providing operational support for the applications and IT infrastructure required to run Waikato DHB’s clinical, business and desktop systems.

IS is responsible for receiving, logging, tracking and managing all IS related queries, incidents and service requests, and running the system change and release management processes.


Applications and data

Information Services provide support, maintenance and reporting for clinical and corporate applications used within Waikato DHB. These range from mission critical, multi-user applications to small applications with only one or two users. 

A small team undertakes data management, warehousing and report creation.


Tools we use:

  • Project Server
    Project Service enables the Project Management Office to keep track of project progress in real time.

  • VMWare Service Manager - Helpdesk System
    The Service Manager toolset captures IT issues and service requests (incidents) so staff can manage, track and report.

  • Waikato Way
    The Waikato Way is a project management methodology customised especially for the Waikato DHB environment.

    It is derived from Prince2 - a global project management standard.

  • System Centre Configuration Manager
    A Microsoft product that allows IS to efficiently and effectively manage large groups of Windows computers.

  • Clinical Records
    The Clinical Records Department provides a 24/7, 365 days a year service to Waikato Hospital.

    The department provides more than 24,000 records a month.

    The department processes requests for information from other hospitals, GPs or patients under the provisions of the Health Information Privacy Code.

  • Knowledge Services
    Knowledge services is crucial in the provision of access to, and management of organisational data, information and knowledge and comprises the Corporate Records, Medical Library and IS training teams

  • Voice Communications
    Waikato DHB has 550 fixed line connections for community bases, school dental services and PaBXs in some of the rural and community sites and 3200 extensions at four Hamilton locations, more than 2000 cell phone users, 800 internal pages and 65 telepagers.

    Telephonists handle in excess of 5500 calls per day.


Contact information

Information Services (IS)
Waikato Hospital

Ph:  (07) 839 4679
Email: ServiceDesk@waikatodhb.health.nz

Hours of operation:
Monday through Friday: 7am to 5pm - excluding public holidays.
The Waikato Way
Advertorial feature

IS SNAPSHOT
NUMBERS
Waikato DHB staff
6133
IT staff
63 permanent, 30 contractors
Annual turnover
$NZ1.1 billion
Desktop PCs
3547
Mobile PCs
574
Hand-held devices
132
'Dumb' terminals
71
Printers
1013
Servers
573
Screens
4544
TECHNOLOGY
Server hardware
HP & IBM
Server O/S
Windows 2003;
Windows 2008;
Unix; vSphere
Workstation OS
Win XP SP3
Printers/MFPs
Ricoh
Database(s)
MS SQL, Oracle, Unidata & MS Access
Clinical workstation & iPM Patient
Management system
(from iSoft)
HRIS
Oracle
(Peoplesoft) HCM
Financial Software
Oracle FMIS
Storage Solutions
HP EVA 4400, 8100, 8400
Business Intelligence
MS Reporting Services, Business Objects
Security/Anti-Virus Software
Trend
Virtualisation Software
VMware vSphere, Microsoft Virtual Server
Remote Access Software
Citrix
Network Hardware
Cisco
WAN
Telecom ONE Office Advanced; HealthZone
Email
MS Exchange
Telecomms Provider/s
Vodafone; Telecom
Internet Service Provider
Telecom (global gateway)


Page last updated on 17/10/2011