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#health #interoperability #productivity #workforce #sickleave #new zealand #govhack2025 #data

Proacta

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Team Name

2772

Team Members

Sarah Shiella Skillen , Rasika Nandana , David , Pramuk

Project Description

Proacta is a real-time workforce health insights tool that connects anonymised GP data, public health surveillance (ESR), and employer HR records to detect regional spikes in illness (e.g. flu, stress, gastro).

Employers receive 1-2 week advance warning, allowing them to:

Adjust rosters

Enable remote work

Deploy wellness support

This transforms New Zealand’s billions in digital health interoperability investments into tangible productivity gains — fewer sick days, better workforce planning, and measurable cost savings.

#health #interoperability #productivity #workforce #sickleave #new zealand #govhack2025 #data

Data Story

📊 Problem Context

Absenteeism costs NZ ~$2.86B annually (2022)
BusinessNZ Workplace Wellness Report 2023

Presenteeism costs NZ ~$46.6B annually
NZ Health Group – Presenteeism

Long Covid costs NZ ~$2B annually
Public Health Communication Centre (PHCC)

Employers currently react after spikes hit. Proacta helps them act before.

📂 Data Sources We Used / Referred

Stats NZ – Labour Market Statistics (Workplace Absence Survey)
👉 https://www.stats.govt.nz/topics/labour-market

BusinessNZ & Southern Cross – Workplace Wellness Report 2023
👉 https://businessnz.org.nz/resources/reports/workplace-wellness-report

ESR – Weekly Health Surveillance (flu, gastro, RSV, COVID)
👉 https://surv.esr.cri.nz

Te Whatu Ora – Interoperability Platform (FHIR/HL7 APIs)
👉 https://www.tewhatuora.govt.nz/health-services-and-programmes/digital-health/digital-services-hub/knowledge-hub/interoperability-platform

NZ Productivity Commission Reports
👉 https://www.productivity.govt.nz

MBIE Employment Statistics (regional workforce mapping)
👉 https://www.mbie.govt.nz/business-and-employment/employment-and-skills/employment-statistics

💡 Solution

Proacta integrates:

GP EHR data (anonymised, tagged by diagnosis)

ESR outbreak surveillance feeds

Employer HR data (opt-in CSV upload)

Employers get dashboards + alerts showing risks by region (e.g., “50% of staff in Wellington → flu spike detected”).

💰 Financial Case

Pilot budget : ~NZ$200k

Savings potential: 5–10% absenteeism reduction → NZ$140M–280M annually

Break-even: <3 months

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Team 2772 Contributions

Rasika (Team Lead): Concept design, strategy, data research

David: Demo development, dashboard UI, coding

Sarah: Presentation visuals, storytelling, video design

Pramuk: Software architecture, integration plan

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Team DataSets

Te Whatu Ora – New Zealand FHIR Registry

Description of Use This registry provides the technical baseline for Proacta’s health data integration. We will leverage these FHIR profiles to ensure our system aligns with national standards—enabling secure, interoperable data exchange (e.g., tagging anonymized GP events, linking to workforce insights) while maintaining compliance with NZ’s digital health ecosystem.

Data Set

Flutracking – New Zealand Weekly ILI Reports

Description of Use Supplementary early signal to triangulate ESR surveillance and employer HR signals in Proacta.

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MetService – Open Access Observational Data

Description of Use Weather context (e.g., cold snaps, severe weather) to help explain or forecast spikes in respiratory illness-related absences in Proacta.

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Metlink – Open Data Developer Portal (Greater Wellington)

Description of Use It will use as an input (realtime and historical data) to Proacta and to model how public-transport disruptions interact with illness spikes for Wellington employers (regional absenteeism risk).

Data Set

Waka Kotahi | NZTA – Traffic & Travel APIs

Description of Use Overlay transport disruptions (storms, closures, incidents) with health spikes to show compounding absenteeism risks in Proacta

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MBIE – Labour Market Statistics Snapshot

Description of Use Context and denominators for Proacta’s regional workforce exposure (e.g., size of labour force to scale risk/savings).

Data Set

Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora – API Standards (digital.health.nz)

Description of Use Technical reference for Proacta’s health data integrations (designing ingest endpoints, privacy-by-design, consistent API behaviour).

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Stats NZ – Household Labour Force Survey

Description of Use It provides government context on sickness-related work absence at a national level. While HLFS does not publish average sick days or cost estimates, it will supports Proacta’s modelling by validating the number of employees temporarily away from work due to illness.

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ESR – Weekly Health Surveillance

Description of Use It will use to simulate regional illness spikes (flu, RSV, COVID) in Proacta. These signals will integrated into our system to show how employers could receive early warnings linked to workforce distribution.

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BusinessNZ & Southern Cross – Workplace Wellness Report 2023

Description of Use Used as the baseline absenteeism dataset for Proacta. We applied the 2022 estimate of $2.86B in absenteeism costs and 5.5 sick days per employee to model potential savings (5–10% reduction) achievable with Proacta’s early warning system.

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Challenge Entries

Unlocking Productivity Through Connected Health Data

How can governments and health care providers better connect healthcare data and systems to enable interoperability and boost productivity?

#Health-interoperability

Eligibility: Open to all teams with a lead based in New Zealand. Your solution will be measured against its relevance to the theme, practicality and scalability, whether it follows ethical and inclusive design, and its innovation.

Go to Challenge | 9 teams have entered this challenge.

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