146 www. t e c h n o l o g y r e c o r d . c om Operating over vast geographical distances, rural Australian healthcare providers face a significant challenge in reaching their patients to deliver the care that they require. In order to combat this problem, the Gippsland Health Alliance (GHA), a consortium of all the publicly funded health services in the Gippsland region of Australia, wanted to find a solution to improve its electronic medical record (EMR) system, which is an electronic representation of an individual’s medical information. By doing so, it aimed to provide timely information to health professionals and administrators wherever needed, maximising the effectiveness of patient care and optimising the use of its limited resources. “When clinicians have information on a patient’s health status and history, they can make more informed decisions and provide a higher quality of care whilst also optimising scarce resources,” says Jon Millar, chief information officer for GHA. “This is about improving the quality of health service across a much bigger footprint in the Gippsland region and helps us deliver on our commitment to empower clinicians to deliver a world-class service.” Practice management and electronic health record technology provider Allscripts won the tender to deliver an EMR solution to the organisation in late 2017. The Latrobe Regional Hospital (LRH), GHA’s specialist referral and trauma centre, was selected as the first site to implement the Allscripts Sunrise EMR clinical suite. Powered by the Microsoft Azure cloud, Sunrise provides a single patient record across all care venues. “We chose Allscripts and its Sunrise platform on Azure because it was very important for us to have a fully managed service,” says Adrian Shearer, chief technology officer for GHA. “We were looking for an organisation that could deliver all of the infrastructure, design and security as part of the solution.” The EMR was first introduced in the 30-bed emergency department in April 2019 and is now fully functional across inpatient services at LRH and community mental health services across the region. While in the planning phase of the implementation of GHA’s EMR it Gippsland Health Alliance chose Allscripts’ Sunrise platform to help make its electronic medical records more accurate, accessible and secure Improving care with the cloud P ROF I L ED : G I P P S L AND HE A LTH A L L I ANC E “We chose Allscripts and its Sunrise platform on Azure because it was very important for us to have a fully managed service” ADRIAN SHEARER, GHA The Latrobe Regional Hospital was selected as the first site to implement the Allscripts Sunrise EMR clinical suite
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