17 Mar 2025 – Mar 2025 – The Pacific Health
Information Network (PHIN) was established to promote networking, support, information-sharing and training for health information professionals in the South Pacific. This year, novaHEALTH & EyRIS was invited to be part of this sharing event held in the beautiful island of Fiji.
The theme of this year’s PHIN was interoperability and this is aptly exemplified by the Tonga’s National Health Information System (NHIS) project that went LIVE in 2020. The national project has Nova’s VESALIUS underpinning a common HIS and EMR platform for 4 hospitals and 20+ health centres spread over a large geographical expanse.
NHIS sees VESALIUS integrated or integrating with external systems such Voyager RIS/PACS, Lab Worklist (LIS), Ministry of Justice CRVS (Civil Registry and Vital Statistics) via OpenCRVS, mSupply (Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Management) and DHIS2 (WHO Reporting).
As Tonga migrates its lab system to SENAITE LIS, this will introduce of FHIR-compliant interfaces. Planning ahead, 2026 will have VESALIUS integrated with Tonga’s Cancer Registry System. 
It was also a welcomed opportunity to re-connect with old friends @Walter, Chief Information Officer, Tonga (extreme right), Lauro Vives, WHO (extreme left) and Chanduru, Project Manager from Nova – the team that implemented with great success Tonga’s National Hospital Information System & EMR.
At the event, we also shared about the development in artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare and introduced SELENA+ our flagship AI trained to detect retinal diseases. We also shared our successful deployments of projects to detect diabetes retinopathy early and prevent vision impairment in various countries. In the South Pacific where diabetes prevalence is among the highest in the world, with rates of 20-40% or more in some countries and the population is under-served due partly to geographical spread, AI such as SELENA+ is a crucial tool in bridging the gap in providing screening service.
There was tremendous interest in SELENA+ and over the course of the event, we screened more than 200 participants.
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