Brisbane hospital digitises outpatient waitlist audit

An unnamed major hospital in Brisbane has started using digital patient pathways by Personify Care to conduct outpatient audits. 

The AI and NLP-driven platform, according to Personify Care, was configured to contact "long-wait" patients based on pre-defined criteria and ask a series of questions to determine the ongoing need for clinical care and unreported changes to demographics. Long waits are those who have been waiting for outpatient appointments past the timeframe defined by their triage category, 

Staff at the said hospital now find it easier to identify patients who no longer need to be on the waitlist. The technology has also helped free up the time spent on auditing the waitlist, which previously could take over 30 minutes per patient.

Trial underway for new digital tinnitus care pathway

The Clinician has teamed up with Flinders University in South Australia to test a new digital care pathway for patients with tinnitus.

Based on a media release, the collaboration will use the ZEDOC platform by The Clinician to collect patient-report outcomes and experience measures from patients with tinnitus. The platform will allow patients to provide PROMs and PREMs at home, reducing the collection burden on clinical teams. 

Following an initial validation period of ZEDOC for tinnitus care, the organisations will then explore other collaborative areas where the digital care pathway can be extended "to include measurement and validation of more digital health interventions."

eHealth NSW's RIS-PACS rollout goes west

eHealth NSW is now deploying its RIS-PACS medical imaging systems to more hospitals across the state's western region.

There is a plan to roll out the imaging systems to the Far West and Western NSW Local Health Districts this month, according to the agency's media release. 

The RIS-PACS, which allows medical imaging histories and comparison images and reports to be tracked in real-time, was recently implemented across six hospitals in the Illawarra Shoalhaven LHD, adding to the 10 LHDs where the technology is now live. 

Echo IQ expanding cardiology CDS capability

ASX-listed Echo IQ has announced that it will be adding six new solutions to its EchoSolv cardiology decision-support platform later this year.

These solutions will support cardiologists in their diagnosis and assessment of the following: diastolic dysfunction, heart failure, hypertension, left atrial volume, left ventricular mass, and mitral stenosis. 

Presently, EchoSolv supports cardiologists in diagnosing and assessing aortic stenosis and mitral regurgitation.