Queensland-based Gold Coast Hospitals and Health Services will trial an ASX-listed HeraMED remote pregnancy monitoring platform.
The organizations recently signed a memorandum of understanding to test the HeraCARE platform as a “new standard of care” for high-risk pregnancies. at GCHHS’s Women’s and Children’s Services.
A cloud-based platform that allows providers to easily manage patient operations remotely through a dashboard while patients complete tasks from their personal care plan through the app mobile and smart connected devices, including the HeraBEAT fetal heart rate monitor.
HeraCARE offers configurable and automated notifications, and has HIPAA compliant telehealth chat and call functionality. It also features personalized educational content provided by the Mayo Clinic as part of a patient care plan.
The trial at GCHHS will track up to 90 pregnancies with HeraCARE over a period of six to nine months. It aims to assess the clinical usability of the platform, patient satisfaction, value for money, and economic benefit.
At the same time, the hospital will conduct clinical implementation research with HeraMED to evaluate several use cases of HeraCARE, including acceptance, cost-effectiveness, and clinical outcomes.
Following the trial, GCHHS plans to secure additional licenses for HeraCARE, “subject to appropriate market scanning, value-for-money assessment, and clinical outcomes,” according to a statement. newspapers.
TREND TO BIGGER
A year ago, another medical device company, Baymatob, raised about $3 million in funding to complete human clinical trials for an AI-powered labor monitoring device called Oli in Australia and the United States. The device uses sensors and AI to identify mothers who are at high risk for abnormal postpartum bleeding before delivery.
Across Australia, health services have begun to adopt digital technologies to improve efficiency in the management and support of pregnancy. For example, the North Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN) recently digitized the delivery of prenatal care by implementing NALHN Pregnancy Online Platform, developed in conjunction with Personify Care. The platform features digital links that provide specific information about the patient’s stage of pregnancy. Last year, the Western Australian government started rolling out an AI-powered fetal tracking system called The K2 Health System Newborn Guardianship System across all National Health Service maternity facilities.
ON PROFILE
Speaking during the HeraCARE pilot, Sandip Kumar, Gold Coast Health’s Executive Director of Strategy, Transformation and Capital Capital, shared that they are adopting remote pregnancy monitoring technology as part of the transition. digital change.
“Following the successful completion of the first phase of our transformation program, which is the digital support of our healthcare service, the focus is now on leveraging new technologies to improve quality and patient care experience and we hope the HeraCARE platform will deliver on these goals as our new standard of care,” he said.
GCHHS serves patients across the northern Gold Coast and NSW borders through more than 20 facilities, including three hospitals and two medical wards.
