HCS ECCo provides a critical electronic clinical communication channel between hospital and community care providers, promoting the timely delivery of clinical information to all members of the care team.
Comprehensive, multi-disciplinary summaries are populated by information from other hospital systems including labs, radiology, pharmacy and patient administration systems (PAS), combined with medication related data stored in HCS PharmCare. After their creation, they can forwarded to all relevant members of the care team, effectively 'echoing' the information.
What does HCS ECCo do?
Key tools provided by HCS ECCo include:
- Comprehensive discharge summaries for delivery to GPs, aged care facilities and other community healthcare providers as authorised. Summaries include:
- Multidisciplinary contributions - from all authorised clinical contributors, including nursing, pharmacy, OT, social work, physiotherapy and dieticians.
- Referrals - to inform the recipient of future patient appointments or requests lodged.
- Directives for ongoing care - to inform the recipient of the advised future treatment considerations for the patient.
- Community pharmacy summaries
- delivering handover information from hospital to community pharmacy, documenting each patient's current medication and allergy profile.
- Care summaries for patients
- including medication details and advice to assist the patient in their own medication management following discharge.
How can HCS ECCo help me?
HCS ECCo delivers relevant and accurate information for the continuance of quality care following discharge.
Key benefits provided by HCS ECCo include:
- A more effective channel of communication for clinical and community care providers to refer information and facilitate ongoing, consistent treatment
- A strong focus on full disclosure of comprehensive clinical information at discharge
- Significant time and cost savings through automatic population, more available time for care activities and better health outcomes.
- Assistance in meeting the latest clinical guidelines and standards for discharge summaries
- The provision of customised information that ensures decisions are not made according to generic medical protocols.
Find out more about HCS ECCo
For any further information, or if you would like to see HCS ECCo in action, please contact us.