Royal melbourne hospital

The Victorian Infectious Diseases Service (VIDS) department at the Royal Melbourne Hospital has implemented CAReHR to manage its patient healthcare data across associated clinics. Clinicians and practitioners, without special IT database skills, are able to dynamically configure how the system captures data based on clinical needs in relation to different conditions, risk factors and symptoms, pathology tests, and design forms to capture the exact structured data that they need to obtain for both clinical and research.

In this complex hospital environment, we interoperate with other core system components including the hospital's central patient administration system (iPM) for health data exchange and to eliminate double data entry, and with the hospital's CMS for archiving purposes. Similarly, we have clinics running CAReHR in Royal Children Hospital and Barwon Health to facilitate clinical and research activities within and across precincts. CAReHR is also used to export data to BioGrid to facilitate population health research at a national level.

STARTTS

STARTTS has undergone a significant digital transformation using the CAReHR platform. Patient records that were previously separated across multiple incompatible and isolated access points are now available through a single system that enables collaboration, and allows accurate data to be shared between trusted STARTTS sister agencies and external referrers. CAReHR has transformed STARTTS into a more effective and innovative health service organisation, that can now better focus on their core mission of improving the quality of patient care and offering services to more people. To learn more about STARTTS digital journey, read the full case study here.

“The reality is that now we are able to see more clients much more efficiently, and as a direct result of the statistics we can now access with CAReHR, we are able to expand the service processes beyond what would have been possible before.”

Ms. Carlena Tu, Client Information Manager, STARTTS

ASeTTS & STTARS

Following the success at STARTTS, sister organisations STTARS and ASeTTS (from South Australia and Western Australia respectively) adopted CAReHR to transform how their data was managed across multiple sites. While sharing similar compliance, funding requirements and business concepts, each agency had different legacy systems, diverged data sets to capture with different nomenclature, and unique business process to model. To coordinate multiple sites the consistency principle had to be followed—while reserving flexibility wherever required—which CAReHR’s flexible schemas and templates could easily facilitate.