Royal Adelaide Sanatorium digitises most cancers therapy prescribing

Prescribing most cancers treatment at South Australia’s flagship properly being facility Royal Adelaide Sanatorium has long past digital.

The digital cloud-basically basically based plan known as iQemo is now reside at RAH, whose Cancer Day Centre delivers 17,000 most cancers therapies to South Australians every three hundred and sixty five days.

Supplied by Altera Digital Health, iQemo additionally facets scheduling, allotting, chemotherapy administration and complete reporting. It is additionally built-in into the properly being facility’s present First light EMR, additionally supplied by Altera.

WHY IT MATTERS

The implementation is a first at RAH, said Dr Charlotte Sale, acting program director of Cancer at Central Adelaide Local Health Community. iQemo “[replaces] a paper-basically basically based plan that changed into beforehand frail in each place in the express.”

“This has vastly superior our chemotherapy prescribing, making our processes extra streamlined to bolster affected person security and the timely provision of proof-basically basically based care,” she instructed Healthcare IT News.

The digital plan is now being frail by over 450 RAH clinicians and healthcare administrators to adjust over a thousand patients, Dr Sale common.

In line with the non-government organisation Cancer Council SA, about 30 original cases of most cancers are diagnosed each day in SA. Each three hundred and sixty five days, approximately 3,800 South Australians die of most cancers with lung most cancers being credited for basically the most deaths.

THE LARGER CONTEXT

This digital implementation at RAH is a part of a statewide programme to digitalise most cancers treatment prescribing. In 2021, SA Health issued a contract to then Allscripts to direct the express’s Enterprise Chemotherapy Prescribing Machine. The venture seeks to implement a consistent and standardised systemic most cancers therapy direction of all over SA. One of its main desires is to minimise the probability of dosing errors to bolster affected person security.

It made the first move-reside in November final three hundred and sixty five days at Lyell McEwin Sanatorium and Mount Gambier and Districts Health Carrier. Queen Elizabeth Sanatorium has additionally fully adopted the digital resolution.

The venture targets to total the iQemo rollout all over all 21 public hospitals in SA by discontinuance-2025.