Digital Health November 8, 2023
One of the “joys” of Justine Patterson’s role is supporting NHS staff to change the way they do things. By Claire Read
When Justine Patterson moved from a healthcare career in her native New Zealand to one in the UK, she knew a degree of culture shock was inevitable. Yet Patterson, who today works as a population health executive at Oracle Health, vividly remembers one very specific difference she couldn’t quite get her head around.
“In New Zealand I’d been working within a district health board, and it had a business intelligence unit with a really great enterprise system set up,” she explains.
“The system brought in information from all the different services areas and the team then created monthly...