Tasman e-Health alliance
October 1, 2013
Australian health IT firm
Healthcare Software (HCS) has
launched a strategic alliance with
NZ-based Sysmex which will see
the companies offer an integrated
clinical suite promising to deliver
“complete electronic medical
record functionality”.
HCS, based in Tasmania, provides a
collection of decision support tools
“for the benefit of care providers
within the hospital including
pharmacists, doctors, nurses and
allied health professionals.”
The company’s systems can also
provide patient support in the
community via aged care workers,
GPs and community pharmacists.
The expertise of Sysmex
focuses on clinical information
management, medication
management and laboratory
information systems, and together
the companies say their integrated
range will enable a “best of breed”
approach to the implementation of
electronic medical records.
HCS software includes a clinical
pharmacy system called HCS
Medicines, and the company
also recently launched the new
Tasmanian Electronic Medicines
Formulary - said to be the first of its
kind in Australia - which is a single
online portal which aims to help
health professionals to make “cost-effective,
evidence, based decisions
when prescribing, administering
and dispensing medicines to
patients in Tasmanian public
hospitals”.
Pharmacists can access the
Formulary to regularly review and
update it with new information
about medicines and their
availability, and as well as providing
a central portal the system is
estimated to result in cost savings
of $500,000 annually.
Sysmex software includes the
Eclair clinical information system,
which is used as the basis for New
Zealand’s TestSafe clinical data
repository.
HCS ceo John Elkerton said that a
key strength of the alliance is that
both firms “bring a depth of clinical
expertise from pharmacy and the
lab respectively - we’re not just IT
developers”.
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