Hospitals and Area Health

When Hospitals and Area Health departments are connected through a Care Communication Network(s) to other departments, services and care providers in the Community and Residential Care; care and services for Patients, Clients and Residents can be provided more easily, more effectively and more efficiently. This leads to better health outcomes as well as savings of millions of dollars year on year.

ICN Health’s Platform is interoperable with and works synergistically with any other system; including Public and Private Hospital, and Area Health internal and external facing systems, Single Point of Access and others including GP's medical software and Community and Residential Care systems.

The benefits of are significant at every level from individual users, to departments, to Hospitals of all sizes and types, to Area Health and to State Health, anywhere.

Key benefits include:

» A shift in care from Hospital Healthcare to Community Healthcare

• Increasing the capacity of Health services
• Enabling more Patients to be cared for, first, in the Community
• Directing appropriate levels of care to ensure high need facilities and resources are not overwhelmed by low need Patients

» Reduced Admissions to Hospitals

• Reducing the number of Patients who go to hospital as they will be recognised earlier, and responded to so they can be cared for in the Community; obviating the need to go to hospital, unless absolutely necessary.
• Reducing the number of Patients who need to call an ambulance, relieving the pressure on ambulance services and reducing the time ambulance crews spend queuing outside Emergency Departments waiting for their Patients to be admitted.

» Better Admission and Patient Care in Hospitals

• By providing current information about Patients' histories and medical conditions, in the correct format, prior to and upon admission; hospital staff can provide even better care.

» Reduced Hospital Access Block

• Reducing Patients' length of stay in hospital through better coordinated and more efficient discharge as Community Services can be set up/reinstated more easily in advance.

» Free up beds and resources and help to reduce waiting lists.

» An increase in information availability at the point of care

• Increasing efficiency of care through less repetition of tests/ investigation of illnesses
• Increasing the ability of services to apply appropriate care solutions with full information