Spotlight on digital health - February 2025 edition

We’re excited to attend Australian Healthcare Week (AHW)—the largest gathering of healthcare professionals across the entire health ecosystem - in just three weeks' time!

Starting on Wednesday, March 19th, it's a quality two day agenda filled with over 15 dedicated programs across 5 Mega Stages.

Dr. Andrew Marks, Director of Perioperative Medicine at RNSH, will share how he and the Pre-Admission Clinic team have streamlined preoperative care.

?? Where? ICC, Sydney

?? Session title: The Digital Preoperative Optimisation Pathway at Royal North Shore Hospital - How RNSH Enhances Patient Outcomes and Improves Healthcare Efficiency with Digital Innovation

???? Speaker: Dr. Andrew Marks, Director of Perioperative Medicine, RNSH

?? Stage: Digital Healthcare Stage

? Time: 11:40 am - 12:00 pm

?? Wednesday, March 19th, 2025

Join us to hear Dr Andrew Marks share his innovation journey and how he and his team have optimised preoperative care, enhanced patient outcomes, and improved healthcare efficiency with digital patient pathways. Let’s connect at AHW! We'll be right next to the stage at Booth 416.

Not attending but keen to learn more about the Dr. Andrew Mark's presentation? Please feel free to book a virtual coffee with our team to discuss.

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Need a ticket to this year's Australian Health Care week? Get yours here, and even better, there's no cost to attend!

Now live: Aushealth - Medico-Legal & Financial Consent Pathway

?At a time when patients need care the most, reducing administrative friction is critical. That’s why AusHealth supports healthcare providers with tailored solutions for managing patient billing and revenue workflows. We’re helping Aushealth to create streamlined pathways to support Medicare-ineligible and overseas patients, making hospital visits less stressful for all involved.?[Read more]

Metro North HHS in Brisbane says it has sped up its waitlist audit process by up to four times

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Highlights:

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?? "The new platform has proven to be 53% cheaper than paper-based audit system and 67% cheaper than the health contact centre system."

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??"Improved patient experience: over 95% of patients reported a positive experience using the digital platform."

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??"Time savings: auditing waitlists manually took up to 30 minutes per patient. This process is drastically reduced by as much as four times, allowing staff to focus on other critical tasks."

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“The digital pathway has improved access to patients in need with real time visibility to the true state of the waitlist. Previously, auditing our waitlist could take in excess of 30 minutes per patient and the whole audit process could take months. This has been dramatically reduced with the end to end process now taking less than two weeks. The pathway does the heavy lifting for us and has a very high patient response rate," said Metro North’s acting nurse director, Meredith Nelson. [Read more]

In case you missed it...

• Professor Jane Andrews and the incredible team behind “the low-cost, scalable” My PreHab Program for Central Adelaide published by Australian College of Health Service Management.?
• How hospitals can streamline pre-admission for patients and staff webinar is now available on demand.
• Flashback: Victorian Healthcare Week with Eleanor Milton,?Director of Clinical Services at Monash Health.
• Michelle Warnes attended Digital Health Week NZ 2024 by HiNZ in Hamilton to present "Reducing administrative load and enhancing patient experience through digital pathways,"?co-authored with Royston Hospital.
• Hear more from the team at Metro North HHS in Brisbane?about their experience implementing a digital patient pathway in the outpatient waitlist optimisation webinar here.

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