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Smart Health approach is to streamline treatment,
reduce test duplication and automate interactions
between patients, healthcare providers and payer
organisations. The three critical aspects addressed
are quality of care, patient safety and costs
through an advanced approach to Information Management.
The
Smart Health Solutions approach evolved from the
ground up. Initial product development was based
on strict healthcare provider requirements and
applying appropriate technologies to meet those
requirements. The outcome of this project was
Smart Patient Data, which first went live in May
2000. Smart Patient Data specifically addresses
care quality, patient safety and the costs associated
with inefficiencies in current communication and
information sharing mechanisms. It provides a
means of reducing existing operational and administration
costs by introducing uniform, convenient, many
to many information management.
Doctors,
other care providers and staff spend hours per
week on the phone, playing telephone tag and returning
calls to exchange information. Smart Patient Data
is a standards compliant, secure Internet application
that makes patient information available to participating
care providers at the point of care.
"I
have no idea what happens to my patients when
they are admitted to hospital." - General Practitioner
refrain.
Smart
Health Solutions is uniquely positioned. It has
several years' experience successfully implementing
Smart Patient Data.
It
provides:
· Availability of clinical information to doctors
and other providers
· Improvements in the quality of care by making
critical information available at all points of
care
· Mitigation of risk through better provision
of information
· Reduced administrative costs of disseminating
clinical information, including reducing telephone
calls, faxes, mail and courier charges
· Ensuring that patients' privacy is protected
by the implementation of secure systems, procedures
and storage of clinical data
Benefits:
· Privacy and Security
· Time and Cost Savings
· HealthConnect and Standards Compliance
· Fully Scalable
· Case Management Tool
The
Smart Health Approach is the premier solution
enabling shared Electronic Health Records amongst
doctors and other healthcare providers. It is
simple to use, low cost and proven. It complies
with Commonwealth Government security standards,
delivering privacy and security for patients and
the health industry.
The
Smart Health Approach is a many-to-many HealthConnect
compliant solution for information management
and dissemination. Smart Patient Data provides
a long term, cost effective approach to the implementation
of shared Electronic Health Records. One-to-one
and e-mail solutions do not solve the problem
of access to up to date clinical information for
chronic patients that typically require health
care services from multiple disciplines. The cost
savings to healthcare providers and payers that
use shared EHRs are substantial.
The
many-to-many Patient Centric shared EHR approach
provides support for clinicians in their normal
practice environments: homes, offices, private
clinics, outpatients or a hospital ward. Many-to-many
means that once information is posted to the secure
data repository, it is available to all of the
many health care providers that may provide care
to that patient in the future.
The
program is compatible with and enhances existing
healthcare software solutions. To implement the
Smart Health Approach healthcare providers require
recent model workstations (PCs) with Internet
connectivity. Patients and healthcare providers
require secure tokens (such as smart cards) to
use the product over the Internet. The card is
the electronic system key. The industry needs
access to patients' clinical information. Patients
want secure, confidential records and knowledge
based care. Providers and payers want to minimise
costs and save time - maximising efficiency. Smart
Health meets these requirements.
The
Smart Health Approach provides on-line access
to event summaries provided by healthcare peers
(radiology, pathology, specialists, etc.). It
provides doctors in the community with immediate
access to hospitalisation information. Many of
these communications are currently paper-based,
rely on the patient's memory or are simply non-existent.
Doctors waste valuable time trying to communicate
with each other to learn about patient treatment.
The Smart Health Approach saves time, removes
the guesswork and enables doctors to get on with
providing quality treatment.
Smart
Health enables general practitioners, specialists,
hospitals and other authorised healthcare providers
to share patient information in a simple, user
friendly and secure manner. It is flexible, extensible,
and simple to rollout to participants.
The
Smart Health Approach is a secure on-line information
management solution for one to many sharing of
summary patient information. It integrates secure
web technologies and public key infrastructure
to deliver patient summary Electronic Health Records
to the desktops of participating healthcare providers.
It provides an industry strength security and
privacy framework. Each healthcare provider requires
an individual token with an associated private
key certificate. Typically the secure token is
a smart card, which is used to establish a secure
session over the Internet to the server.
As
each patient is treated, the patient's card is
used to "point" directly to the individual patient's
data on the server. When a patient leaves a hospital,
discharge information is posted to the secure
data repository. When the patient visits a general
practitioner, the doctor can access the patient's
clinical records, including the latest information,
on-line. The record can then be supplemented with
a new visit event summary. In this way the patient's
clinical history is built up over time, providing
essential clinical information to all authorised
healthcare providers.
All
information is stored in a highly secure environment
and is encrypted during transmission over the
Internet using Commonwealth mandated security
products. The data repository environment is a
Gatekeeper and ASIO Certified Telstra iTrust Centre.
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