Blooms The Chemist integrates Healthengine and more instructions
Blooms The Chemist implements booking platform
Pharmacy chain Blooms The Chemist has adopted Healthengine’s booking platform to streamline appointment management and improve scheduling.
Customers can now book pharmacy services, including vaccinations, through Healthengine 24 hours a day and with real-time availability.
The booking platform also features voucher management and consultation room service settings, which can also be integrated with the pharmacy chain’s system.
In August, Healthengine integrated with Core Practice‘s dental practice management software, which allows users to view their appointments directly through the booking platform.
Healthengine recently launched a new waitlist functionality on the platform, giving consumers the ability to add themselves to an online waitlist and practices to convert cancellations into appointments.
VVED patient portal goes live
Northern Health recently introduced a new patient registration portal for the Victoria Virtual Emergency Department (VVED).
The said portal, which went live in August, includes a comprehensive dashboard for registering patients into EMR systems, according to Northern Health, a major healthcare provider in Melbourne.
Developed in-house by the organization’s Digital Health team, the patient portal has enabled a “faster” registration process by improving data capture and validation. “In its first 15 days, the portal helped reduce duplicate patient records by 10% and increased Medicare number registration compliance from 73% to 88%,” said HIS manager Nicholas Caruana.
Anthony Gust, executive director of Northern Health’s digital health division, announced that they plan to “repurpose” the portal for in-home and outpatient services.
At the beginning of this year it was announced that the VVED will double its capacity, aiming to accommodate more than a thousand patients per day, with new government funding.
Peninsula Health will roll out cancer IMS
Peninsula Health, another Melbourne healthcare provider, recently digitized medication management in oncology.
It will roll out a Magentus-provided oncology information management system, doing away with the current paper-based workflow.
Peninsula Health’s cancer service receives more than 400 referrals annually. It hopes to improve patient safety and free up more staff time through the implementation of the IMS, which also integrates directly with existing systems and My Health Record.
About 250 users within the service will use the system, Peninsula Health said in a statement.
The same cancer IMS was too was rolled out at Fiona Stanley Hospital in Western Australia in June as part of a wider contract to implement the solution across the South Metropolitan Health Service. Just over a year ago, private Catholic healthcare group St John of God Health Care signed an agreement to implement the Magentus solution in its hospitals nationwide.