The ACT is pretty well known as not being a global leader in Hospital Computing so it is good to see that they are beginning to pick up the pace. See here:
ACT Health goes live with Miya Precision at two hospitals
This implementation complements the existing use of Alcidion’s Patientrack solution and is the first step in a five-year agreement.
By Dean Koh
March 18, 2020 11:04 PM
Healthcare software solutions provider Alcidion announced that ACT Health, the public health agency of the Australian Capital Territory (ACT), recently went live with Miya Precision at two campuses – Canberra Hospital and The University of Canberra Hospital.
Miya Precision is a health analytics tool powered by AI. The graphical dashboard will ensure clinicians are aware of the current patient and bed status, improving communication and visibility of patient flow across the health service to streamline the patient stay. Miya Precision leverages the capability FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources) to overcome interoperability challenges, source relevant data and create clinical events.
This implementation complements the existing use of Alcidion’s Patientrack solution and is the first step in a five-year agreement.
Alcidion is also currently working with ACT Health to deploy a COVID-19 flag on their Journey boards so they can immediately see where they may have patients that need isolated care and where the suspected cases may be. ACT had its third confirmed case of COVID-19 as of 18 March, according to a report by the Canberra Times.
THE PROCESS
According to Kate Quirke, managing director of Alcidion, the preparation time for each site’s go live will be different but the implementation phase will take six months on average.
“The main activities are around integrating data into Miya Precision from all the underlying information sources and then configuring each of the dashboards to reflect the needs of the clinical teams,” she added.
“ACT Health is deployed via a hosted cloud environment so the requirement from the IT team was around network connectivity and integration. We had input from all clinical areas and the team that manages bed allocation and flow across the hospitals.”
THE LARGER TREND
Last November, Alcidion launched Miya MEMRe, a mobile electronic medical record (EMR), which provides clinicians with access to caseloads, critical issues and comprehensive patient records on the go, Healthcare IT News reported.
More here:
https://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/asia-pacific/act-health-goes-live-miya-precision-two-hospitals
It is good to see the ACT using an Australian Digital Health Company (Alcidion) to catch up on functionality and scope of applications. It will be interesting to hear the odd comment from readers as to how it is going and what benefits are being realised
Let us all know how progress is being made.
David.
That will be interesting to follow. I would be interested in costs for change and if they stick with configuring and avid customisation
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