STM publisher Elsevier has announced that Monash Health, the largest public health service provider in the state of Victoria, Australia, will integrate Elsevier's Order Sets into its electronic medical record (EMR) system as part of its major digital transformation effort.
The decision to integrate Order Sets into its EMR system will help Monash Health achieve greater operational efficiencies by reducing redundancies and maximizing already limited resources to deliver better outcomes for patients, physicians and other healthcare providers.
At Monash Health, the first stage of the EMR deployment will involve the critical integration of Order Sets to provide clinical decision support through real-time, evidence-based alerts for clinicians to do 'the right thing.' Delivering digitised patients' medical records while providing medical staff quick access to evidence-based content from Order Sets will help standardize clinical practice, reduce medical errors and streamline workflows, all of which will ultimately result in better quality care and safer outcomes for patients.
ClinicalKey is Elsevier's powerful clinical search engine that delivers fast and accurate answers from a comprehensive database of evidence-based content to support decision making at the point of care.
Apart from existing hospitals across the Monash Health network that will undergo this digital upgrade, the Monash Children's Hospital, which is currently under construction, will also start using Order Sets when the site goes 'live' with the EMR.
Full measures have been put in place to facilitate the smooth and successful implementation of an EMR in Monash Health.
In addition to point-of-care benefits, the digitisation of clinical workflows will generate big data that can be harnessed for broader population-health level benefits. This includes the ability to examine relationships between clinical events previously thought as unrelated, and taking advantage of the cumulative experience to learn how others treated similar conditions.
The push to digitise workflows across Monash Health comes at a critical time for the industry given the government's renewed efforts to restructure the My Health Record initiative. With a budget of AUD$156.5 million for the newly-established Australian Digital Health Agency, there is a clear imperative to improve the healthcare infrastructure across the country.
For many hospitals in Australia, crucial information about patients is still being communicated between GPs and hospitals via paper records or faxes despite more than AUD$1 billion being spent on healthcare technology over the past decade. Breakdown in communication during patient handovers is one of the main causes of adverse events related to patient care.
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