In mid 2010, it was decided to expand Panavista across the whole of the South Eastern Sydney & Illawarra Area Health service (SESIAHS) to cover 12 hospital sites.

In the latest expansion and upgrade, the central and northern networks will be brought on board culminating in Randwick Hospital for Women, Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney Children’s Hospital, Sydney and Sydney Eye Hospital, St George Hospital and Sutherland Hospital all benefiting from Panavista technology.

Panavista is Core Medical Solution’s digital imaging product which enables electronic delivery of diagnostic text reports and image data direct to referrers, simply, securely and swiftly.

SESIAHS have been completely electronic in terms of PACS since 2002. However this meant that images were stored within hospital IT firewalls and GP’s were not able to access them. To boost outpatient referral base, the Service needed to look at ways in which they could solve this.

Integrating Panavista with the existing PACS ensured an easy and efficient means for GPs to access public hospital images. The system is streamlined, quick and accessible and because of this, GP’s are more likely to refer extra outpatient studies that normally would be sent to a private radiology practice.

SESIAHS has three hospital networks: North, Central and South.

Panavista was first rolled out in the Southern hospital network and covers Bulli, Wollongong, Port Kembla, Shell Harbour, Nowra and Milton hospitals.

What was attractive to SESIAHS, was that Panavista was clearly designed for the end user; for GP’s. Where Panavista really leaps above its competition is in its integration capabilities. Panavista can integrate into any practice management software and the Pulse application can send out results in any format. So for Services that are dealing with a variety of practice management software systems, a simple hyperlink allows each GP to view images in their preferred software.

Another feature is that the video streaming is set in such a way that image sets are always viewed efficiently regardless of the internet connection speed. The system also has the ability to email a secure “key” to another specialist. This gives them direct access to the images, meaning that the onus is off the patient to collect and carry physical files- again something that often slows up the referral and diagnosis process.

This is an exciting project and one which Core Medical Solutions and SESIAHS are confident will improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the service to the SESIAHS community.

Epworth HealthCare group implemented BOSSnet DMR in November 2010.

This project involved the import and seamless integration into BOSSnet DMR of over 1.5 million existing documents from legacy document imaging system, a process accomplished in just 17 days.

Following initial efforts at converting their medical records in 2005, Epworth turned to Core Medical Solutions to provide a system that would ultimately be used by clinicians to provide them with a comprehensive range of integrated functionality stretching beyond the Digital Medical Record.

The key to early clinical embrace and positive feedback of BOSSnet at Epworth Eastern has been the system’s user intuitiveness and ability to present medical records in the manner reflecting the way they would have been read in hard copy.

At Epworth scanning staff are really pleased with the results and are saving significant time due to the ease of use of the BOSSnet DMR system.

The next phase for Epworth is electronic results review and linking this to the electronic prescribing.

They also have the scope to do much more including creating electronic forms, the order entry of results and electronic discharge summaries. 

Future plans include the potential to extend the system across the five remaining campuses within the group. Greg notes that Doctors have already requested BOSSnet for Emergency as they can see the huge benefit it would bring to their area.

Epworth HealthCare remains the first private hospital group in Victoria to use a scanned medical record system.

Locally and medically owned APP utilise a number of Core Medical Solutions' communication technologies to further enhance the quality of service delivered to referring GP's and Specialists.

BOSSnet Mobile:  APP was the very first organisation to embrace our mobile results review system, and is winning the hearts of many techno-phile referrer.  Doctors throughout APP's catchment area are  able to interact with the BOSSnet interface via their browser enabled mobile phone, PDA or laptops regardless of their location - car, golf course, restaurant or lounge room!

BOSSnet:  the users of APP's diagnostic services are able to extract further value from their delivered results using BOSSnet.  Not only are most recent results available, but as are a patient's entire history of tests performed by APP.  Physicians will be able to view ongoing results in tabular summary and also as graphs over time.

Pulse:  making all of this possible is Core Medical Solutions' simple yet powerful results delivery mechanism.  Pulse will take generated results from APP's Laboratory Information System, securely encrypt them and deliver to the patient management software used by referring physicians.  CMS's one-click functionality makes it possible to launch the BOSSnet application from the delivered result, as it is being viewed in the patient management software.