West Hume Region Selects DXC Care Suite to Optimise Processes Across Five Rural Health Services
News Release -- May 20, 2020
VICTORIA, Australia, 20 May 2020 – DXC Technology (NYSE: DXC), the world’s leading independent, end-to-end IT services company, today announced the West Hume Region (WHR), comprising five rural health services, has selected DXC Care Suite to optimise workflow and help improve outcomes in patient care. The WHR represents Goulburn Valley Health (GV Health), Nathalia, Cobram & Numurkah Health, The Kilmore & District Hospital, Yea & District Memorial Hospital and Seymour Health.
DXC Care Suite, built on DXC Healthcare Cloud on Microsoft Azure, is a health platform that offers contemporary patient record management, automated scheduling and pathway management. The interoperability capabilities of DXC Open Health Connect helps care providers integrate data from different systems to create a longitudinal patient record via Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) interfaces.
DXC Care Suite will enable a redesign of workflows through real-time automation, increasing efficiency for staff and patients across the WHR. This will allow member hospitals to achieve significant savings and reallocate staff to higher-value responsibilities. For example, the use of DXC Care Suite will increase and improve the flow of patients through the hospitals, freeing up capacity and creating administrative efficiencies. Advanced enterprise scheduling is key to achieving this result by reducing errors and aligning clinically defined schedules to significantly improve information throughput. The patient administration system (PAS) functionality of DXC Care Suite will be deployed across the WHR hospitals.
Matt Sharp, chief executive at GV Health, which is the lead agency for WHR, said: I am very pleased to share that GV Health, as part of the WHR, will initiate the replacement of the current PAS with DXC’s Care Suite. This will provide patients and staff with a platform to build upon and enable wider future clinical services integration.
GV Health will be working hard with partner health services to implement DXC Care Suite PAS as part of its ICT and digital health strategy,
Sharp added. This is a significant step towards digital transformation and demonstrates the commitment of health services in the WHR to provide modern, contemporary tools that support the delivery of integrated high-quality care. Most importantly, the inclusion of enterprise scheduling will allow health services in the WHR to balance demand on healthcare services across the capacity at the partnership hospitals, allowing patients to be seen sooner and bringing waitlists under control.
Building on the momentum in the digitisation of rural health, we are delighted to see WHR transform its mission-critical patient administration systems to improve workflow, cost-efficiencies and citizen engagement,
said Daryll Goodall, DXC Healthcare director for Australia and New Zealand. This rollout is one of the first enterprise hospital systems in Australia to be delivered in an as-a-service cloud model and will result in no downtime upgrades and a level of security crucial to the safety of patient health information. This is truly an exciting time for healthcare organisations in Australia and New Zealand as they now have a clear way forward with an affordable and modern alternative for a digital health platform.
For both WHR and DXC’s recently announced collaboration with Central Hume Partnership, DXC is working with PowerHealth to integrate its PowerBilling & Revenue Collection (PBRC) solution within the DXC Care Suite platform. PBRC, which is used extensively throughout Australia and in healthcare organisations internationally, is a comprehensive enterprise-wide solution that simplifies and automates the complexities of healthcare billing and claiming.
A key value-add for healthcare organisations using DXC Care Suite is the integration of PBRC which is designed to rapidly respond to changes in business and delivery models to better support a future where billing of health services is being aligned to improving the patient journey,
added Goodall.
About DXC Technology
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About West Hume Region
The West Hume Region (WHR) is one of the health partnerships in the State of Victoria, which are geographically arranged. Health partnerships provide a platform for initiating, implementing and/or overseeing collaborative efforts across health services in a region or area. This includes implementing State-wide policies and priorities, as well as locally led initiatives that respond to local issues or opportunities. WHR comprises the following health services: Goulburn Valley Health (GV Health), Nathalia, Cobram & Numurkah Health (NCN Health), The Kilmore & District Hospital, Yea & District Memorial Hospital and Seymour Health.
About PowerHealth
PowerHealth is a dynamic Australian software development company specialising in activity-based costing, hospital billing and patient safety solutions for healthcare organisations. ISO 9001 quality-accredited since 2001, the company is a market leader in Australia, New Zealand and Canada, with international recognition in the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Hong Kong and the Middle East. For more information, visit www.powerhealthsolutions.com.
Contacts
- DXC Technology - Sheila Dhillon, director, Corporate Communications, DXC Technology - sdhillon@dxc.com
- West Hume Region – Jodie Fleming, Senior Media & Communications Advisor, GV Health – jodie.fleming@gvhealth.org.au