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HCS Discharge Summaries now live across Tasmania 10 December 2009
HCS
is pleased to announce that HCS eCCO, our integrated electronic
discharge
summary solution, is now fully operational at three public hospitals
across
Tasmania. HCS eCCO was initially implemented by the Tasmanian
Department
of Health & Human Services (DHHS), as part of a patient discharge
medication record pilot scheme at the Launceston General Hospital
(LGH).
Following
the success of the pilot program, DHHS contracted HCS to implement the
solution
into another two Tasmanian sites, Mersey Community Hospital and North
West
Regional Hospital. Since the go live for the additional 2 sites, over
9,000
discharge summaries have been sent electronically to GPs. This has
assisted in
ensuring patients receive the highest quality of care post discharge,
subsequently reducing the rate of adverse medication reactions and
decreasing
the occurrence of re-admission to hospital.
Since
implementation earlier this year, HCS eCCO has received positive
feedback from
treating physicians and GPs alike. The success of the product is
highlighted by comments from system users and GPs which reflects their
satisfaction with the new discharge summary creation & delivery
processes.
HCS
eCCO is part of the HCS Clinical Suite, elements of which are also
implemented
into Tasmanian DHHS sites. Designed to automatically draw
information
from a range of clinical systems, including HCS PharmCare, our
electronic
medication management solution, HCS eCCO enables multi-disciplinary
contributions to the discharge summaries.
To view the DHHS Press Release