Blooms The Chemist implements booking platform

Pharmacy chain Blooms The Chemist has adopted Healthengine's booking platform to streamline appointment management and enhance scheduling. 

It now allows customers to book pharmacy services, including vaccinations, via Healthengine round the clock and with real-time availability. 

The booking platform also features voucher management and consult room service setups, which also integrate with the pharmacy chain's system. 

In August, Healthengine integrated with Core Practice's dental practice management software, allowing the latter's users to make their appointments visible via the booking platform directly. 

Healthengine recently introduced a new waitlist functionality on its platform, providing consumers with the ability to add themselves to an online waitlist and allowing practices to turn cancellations into appointments. 

VVED patient portal goes live

Northern Health has recently introduced a new patient registration portal for the Victoria Virtual Emergency Department (VVED).

The said portal, which went live in August, includes a comprehensive dashboard for registering patients into EMR systems, said Northern Health, a major healthcare provider in Melbourne. 

Developed in-house by the organisation's Digital Health team, the patient portal has enabled a "faster" registration process by enhancing data capture and validation. "In its first 15 days, the portal assisted in the reduction of duplicate patient records by 10% and increased Medicare number capture compliance from 73% to 88%," shared HIS Manager Nicholas Caruana. 

Anthony Gust, executive director of Northern Health's digital health division, disclosed that they plan to "reuse" the portal for residential-in-reach and outpatients. 

Early this year, it was announced that the VVED will double its capacity, targeting to accommodate over a thousand patients per day, with new state funding. 

Peninsula Health to roll out cancer IMS

Peninsula Health, another healthcare provider in Melbourne, has recently digitised medication management in oncology. 

It will be rolling out an oncology information management system provided by Magentus, doing away with the current paper-based workflow. 

Peninsula Health's cancer service receives over 400 referrals each year. It hopes to improve patient safety and free up more staff time by implementing the IMS, which also directly integrates with its existing systems and My Health Record. 

About 250 users across the service will be utilising the system, Peninsula Health said in a statement. 

The same cancer IMS was also rolled out at Fiona Stanley Hospital in Western Australia in June as part of a broader contract to deploy the solution across South Metropolitan Health Service. Over a year ago, the private Catholic healthcare group St John of God Health Care signed a deal to implement the Magentus solution in its hospitals nationwide.