Mode of Delivery
Recording mode of delivery
The National Non-Admitted Patient Collection (NNPAC) is the reporting Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora's complete for outpatient or emergency department events under three hours.
All Health NZ | Te Whatu Ora regional hospitals should be able to record the Mode of Delivery (MOD), including when telehealth/video conferencing is used to deliver health services. Code 6 is Videoconference and this is the mode for most telehealth events. The information captured in Health NZ | Te Whatu Ora is reported to the Ministry of Health, usually via an extract from the Patient Administration System. Accurate use of MOD Code 6 is an important factor in tracking the uptake of telehealth, especially for business-as-usual services.
The Common Counting Group have defined the following modes of delivery:
Mode of delivery code table
| 1 | In-Person (1 patient to 1 clinician) |
Individual face to face at the same location. Where tests are performed the mode of delivery is face to face |
| 2 | In-Person (1 patient to many clinicians) |
Multidisciplinary meeting with patient present at the same location and time |
| 3 | In-Person (1 clinician to many patients) |
Group of patients being seen by one or more clinicians at the same location and time |
| 4 | Remote patient monitoring | monitoring of patient’s biometric health information communicated from a remote patient medical device |
| 5 | Telephone | Voice only contact between patient and clinician using telephone |
| 6 | Video | Communication via technology enabling remote visual and audio contact between patient and clinician(s) |
| 7 | Non-contact | An event where decisions about patient health care are made without the patient being present. |