Emerging Health Solutions

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Patient Benefits
Clinician Benefits
IT Benefits
Organisational Benefits

The use of Emerging Health Solutions to manage patient episodes of care creates the opportunity for a broad range of benefits to be realised. Among these are:

Patient Benefits

• Better care achieved through:

o	The Care Guides aligning practice with best practice standards.
o	The review and management of variances creating a continuous quality improvement cycle.
o	The comprehensiveness, completeness, accessibility of records and communication tools permuting improved coordination of care.
o	The potential to use records in health services spanning primary to tertiary care ensuring continuity of care.

• Improvement in patient safety arising from:

o	Systematic risk assessment and management.
o	Automated addition of tasks and activities based on risk profiles.
o	Prompts to ensure risk triggered tasks and activities are not overlooked.

• Better health outcomes arising from:

o	Better management of care delivery processes.
o	Better care.
o	Improved safety.

• Greater patient satisfaction through:

o	A greater likelihood that the patient gets better faster.

Clinician Benefits
• Vastly improved access to patient clinical information through:

o	A single web browser interface.
o	Access to records from any location.
o	Access to the maximum amount of information on which to base clinical judgements.

• Being better equipped to delivery a higher quality of care through:

o	The alignment of care with best practice.
o	The use of decision support tools.
o	The use of task automation tools.
o	The use of clinical communication tools.

• Opportunity to accelerate the development of their own practice through:

o	Complete control over the creation and management of Care Guides.
o	The opportunity to exercise the continuous quality improvement cycle.

• Opportunity to conduct more research more easily through access to built-in tools including:

o	Care Guides.
o	Clinical Questionnaires.
o	Validation Rules.

• Reduction in administrative tasks:

o	When clinical tasks are completed through Emerging Health Solutions there is no need for clinicians to record activity information separately.

• Better management of clinical workload through:

o	The management of clinical work through a single electronic environment.
o	Access to the whole clinical work environment from any location.
o	Exercise of the range of electronic tools built into support practice.

• Improved job satisfaction arising from the realisation of the benefits to clinicians.

IT Benefits

• Reduced user training time.

o	The only environment that needs to be familiar to the user is the common web browser environment.
o	Application training is provided by clinical staff.

• Very high level of clinician independence.

o	User management functions are built into the application making them user controlled.
o	Screen customisation options are user managed.

• Commonly used platform (MS SQL).

o	A familiar platform
o	Easy to manage

• Single and multi-entity

o	Multi-entity capability built in and user managed.

• Active Directory based user management.

o	Easy to implement.
o	Easy to manage.

• Full range of two way standards based interfaces.

o	Interfaces require little or no intervention once established.

• Easy to deploy locally and remotely.

o	Web browser based platform makes deployment very simple.

• Very rapid application development if and when needed.

o	The application architecture and development tools used make it possible to add functionality very quickly when needed.

• Build in audit trails.

o	All interactions of any kind with the application are tracked and logged.

• Response time management.

o	Appropriately authorised users are provided tools to monitor and manage application response time.

Organisational Benefits

• Significant increase in the productivity of both clinicians and administrative staff.

• A variety of financial benefits resulting from:

o	Productivity gains.
o	Elimination of unnecessary duplication of tests and procedures.
o	Staff being prompted to complete task and activities at the most appropriate time.

• Improved understanding and management of service delivery through access to:

o	A vast amount of clinical activity information.
o	Clear an accurate resource utilisation information.