Intelligent Software and Systems

WebQI is now being used as the basis for electronic clinical admission, handover, audit, referral, progress notes, operation reports and discharge summaries at Southern Health. The sites include Monash Medical Centre Clayton, Dandenong Hospital, Monash Medical Centre Moorabbin, Casey Hospital and Jessie McPherson Hospital.

ISS is pleased to announce that it has been selected by Southern Health to develop, implement and deploy WebQI for provision of an electronic clinical handover system.

Operating across all sites at Southern Health, WebQI will provide a means for clinicians clinical handover functionality, including electronic versions of the following:

• Patient admission
• Clinical handover
• Progress notes
• Discharge summaries

WebQI was chosen as the result of a competitive tender evaluation conducted by Southern Health.

WebQI was presented at the HISA Data Governance conference on March 30.

The conference covered a range of healthcare data governance issues. The full program is at: http://www.hisa.org.au/page/dg2012program.

ISS is pleased to confirm that an agreement with Ocean Informatics has been received by Southern Health. The agreement provides for ongoing WebQI support, including backup and cover.

Ocean Informatics (see oceaninformatics.com) is an Australian health informatics company developing a comprehensive tool set for the construction of open interoperable systems for the shared electronic health record.

This agreement provides onging assurance that WebQI support will continue indefinitely. It also paves the way to expand the use of WebQI to manage patient information at Southern Health as well as other health services.

WebQI now integrates directly with Active Directory at Southern Health, which means that users can login with the single sign-on that they use for all other applications.

This reduces the number of passwords that have to be memorised and also simplifies the management of users for Southen Health IT.

Other features in v.1.7 include:

• Self management of Unit access: Users can allocate themselves to any Unit (and hence access that Unit's projects)
• 'Start new patient' expand function now displays a read only version of previous records, allowing easy access to all previous records from the same page.

Intelligent Software and Systems has been commissioned to undertake an IT Scoping Report on behalf of the Office for Disability

The Victorian Government, through the Office for Disability, allocates approximately $2.3 million per annum to the Disability Advocacy Program which funds 20 community organisations to provide individual advocacy, self-advocacy or systemic advocacy, or a mix of all with and for people with a disability, their families and carers where appropriate. Also funded are two resource units, the Disability Advocacy Resource Unit (DARU) and the Self-Advocacy Resource Unit (SARU) to strengthen and support disability advocacy and self-advocacy. Within Victoria, the Office for Disability currently collects data from disability advocacy organisations quarterly and reports to the State and Commonwealth governments.

ISS is pleased to announce that it has been selected by Southern Health to develop, implement and deploy WebQI for provision of an online procedural clinical audit system.

Operating across all five sites at Southern Health, WebQI will provide a means for the clinicians of each of the participating Units with a range of clinical audit functionality. WebQI will be available to Southern Health clinicians from any internet-connected PC, through secure encrypted transmission of all communications and operations.

The core functionality made available will include :

•  Data entry specific to the needs of each Unit.
• A range of patient, patient cohort and peer group reporting.

ISS was chosen as the result of an open competitive tender evaluation conducted by Southern Health: “Provision, installation and maintenance of an information system to support clinical audit”.

Starting development in November 2009, initial Unit deployments are expected in early 2010. Southern Health is Victoria’s largest health service, with five sites, over 70 Units and 500 users for whom clinical audit is of importance.