For older people and frail people, the long-term benefit of medicines reduces and the potential for harm from adverse effects increases. When the benefit–risk balance changes in this way, medicine review and optimisation are important to simplify the therapeutic regimen, reduce inappropriate medicines and minimise risks. In this article, pharmacist prescriber Linda Bryant uses two case studies to illustrate important considerations during medicine reviews
Cloud computing offers silver lining for delayed primary data project
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Cloud computing offers silver lining for delayed primary data project
Wednesday 19 June 2019, 04:30 AM

Puttiing raw data into a data lake in the cloud is quick, secure and cheap, attendees were told
The health sector is increasingly being driven by data, but how to store, access and manage those data at a national level has been a controversial issue. It was one of the key talking points at last month’s Emerging Tech in Health conference in Christchurch. Fiona Cassie was there and reports on the progress of two separate big-data projects
We set up the dataset for the Health Care Home Collaborative for a few tens of thousands of dollars – whereas before it would have been almost million
Kia ora and welcome to New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa
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