Health IT company Personify Care has signed a AU$5.6 million (US$3.7 million) contract from SA Health to expand its statewide digital patient pathway project in next two years.
BIGGER BACKGROUND
The project began in 2021 as a proof of concept between Personify Care and the Central Adelaide Local Health Network (CALHN) with support from the SA government’s Go2Gov programme. Digital Patient Pathways have been rolled out in more than 20 specialty areas and at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, Queen Elizabeth Hospital and SA Dental. Since then, it has reduced the workload on frontline hospital staff while providing convenient access to care for patients.
In its annual government report last year, CALHN further detailed: “This platform enables the provision of personalized and accurate patient appointments, technical clinical patient information digital, personalized electronic consent processes, as well as the ability to measure patient experience for continuous quality improvement resulting in an enhanced patient experience.”
After initial testing, Personify Care’s digital patient roadmap has been rolled out to various use cases across the network. In At Queen Elizabeth Hospital, these were used to digitize the Direct Access Endoscopy program, reducing wait times for patients seeking a laparoscopic or endoscopic procedure.
CALHN continues to use Personify Care’s platform to launch My Prehab, a preoperative rehabilitation program that keeps patients healthy for surgery.
Elsewhere in SA, the North Adelaide Local Health Network has also worked with Personify Care to build NALHN Maternity Online Platform, a digital antenatal care platform that eases the administrative burden on midwives while enabling personalized support for pregnant women.
In addition, the Barossa Hills Fleurieu Local Health Network has tapped Personify Care to use digital roadmaps to improve the surgical admission process, which now takes 12 minutes compared to an hour ago.
ON PROFILE
“We are excited to expand our partnership with SA Health and look forward to helping clinical teams develop new models of care that reduce patient wait times for outpatient appointments and spontaneous surgery. chosen while ensuring that nurses, clinicians, and frontline workers can spend more time providing high-value care to the patients who need it most,” Personify Care CEO Ken Saman said Healthcare IT News.
