Sydney LHD extends use of Miya Precision remote patient monitoring platform
The Sydney Native Well being District will proceed utilizing a distant affected person monitoring platform by ASX-listed healthcare IT firm Alcidion after extending their contract.
In July final 12 months, Alcidion signed an preliminary 12-month contract with the LHD to deploy its Miya Precision system to assist the digital care supply of Sydney’s RPA Digital Hospital (rpavirtual) for COVID-19 sufferers in house isolation.
With round 12,000 employees, Sydney LHD is serving over 700,000 individuals throughout central and inner-west Sydney. It oversees 5 hospitals, together with the Royal Prince Alfred and Harmony Hospitals, and a variety of in-hospital and community-based assist companies.Â
WHY IT MATTERS
Miya Precision has been supporting the digital hospital’s docs with a scientific monitoring dashboard that consolidates info, supporting their supply of distant affected person care. The platform can be serving to to cut back hospitalisations and enhance restoration outcomes.
The expanded implementation, in line with a press assertion, will use Miya Precision to remotely monitor the situations of sufferers with acute diverticulitis. It’s going to embody bi-directional integration with Sydney LHD’s Cerner EMR.
Furthermore, each organisations will collaborate to deploy the Miya Care cell affected person app, which is able to permit rpavirtual to actively monitor care progress and improve its engagement with sufferers. The app will combine information from affected person monitoring units and affected person wearable know-how.
THE LARGER TREND
In September, healthcare IT companies Royal Philips and Teladoc Well being introduced their partnership to supply digital care options in Australia and New Zealand. Combining their digital care choices, the businesses will ship to hospitals and well being methods a scalable end-to-end digital care service that permits them to conduct distant affected person monitoring throughout well being services with restricted scientific sources.
In the meantime, the College of South Australia has lately developed an AI-enabled platform to remotely monitor the very important indicators of untimely infants and detect their faces whereas mendacity in hospital beds.
ON THE RECORD
“We’re very excited to construct on our preliminary implementation of Miya Precision with Sydney [LHD] via this challenge that highlights the flexibleness and scalability of our platform as a key enabler of latest and modern fashions of care,” mentioned Alcidion Managing Director Kate Quirke.
“The chance to increase our know-how to offer improved info and communication choices for the affected person within the house will considerably enhance the affected person expertise and contribute to higher outcomes,” she added.