The cancer multidisciplinary meeting (MDM) system developed in-house by Southern District Health Board in 2013 is set to roll out to the rest of the South Island progressively from the end of this month, accessible to teams through the island-wide Health Connect South clinical portal.

The single, shared MDM system allows a range of specialists to case conference and share care plans and treatment options for individual patients electronically, overcoming timeliness and care coordination barriers caused by paper correspondence and discrete databases and spreadsheets.