Australia-based healthcare services provider Alfred Health has extended its partnership with Oracle Health by adopting Oracle’s Oncology electronic health record (EHR) solutions.
The expanded partnership helps Alfred Health to move from paper-based processes to digitised records, to deliver more informed care for cancer patients.
It provides primary care and speciality clinicians working across Alfred’s network of in and out-patient locations, with a unified view of each patient’s complete medical history.
The integrated records save the physicians’ time and provide a clear view of cancer patient’s treatment plans, therapies, and current medications, said the healthcare services provider.
Alfred Health chief pharmacy information officer Erica Tong said: “Completely digitising and making cancer treatment information easily available in our EHR makes guiding the overall treatment plan for patients more efficient.”
Alfred Health said it is leveraging Oracle EHR beyond record access, to help connect its patients with more cancer clinical trial opportunities.
Oracle’s EHR allows clinicians to directly view the clinical trials, identify possible therapies and eligibility for patients, track and document study progress, and simplify pharmacist processes.
Alfred Health was the first hospital in the region to implement electronic prescriptions (eprescribe) within a hospital EHR to improve prescribing and dispensing of medications.
It has also teamed up with Oracle to support the national Safescript program, a centralised database that allows prescribing and dispensing records for certain high-risk medicines.
The integration of access to the national database with the Oracle EHR, allows clinicians to view prescription history directly in their existing workflows.
Furthermore, Alfred Health was one of Australia’s first hospitals to digitise immunisation records sharing from the Oracle EHR to the national registry, to track vaccine administrations.
Oracle Health and Life Sciences executive vice president and general manager Seema Verma said: “Alfred Health has long been at the forefront of innovation in adopting technologies that break down the barriers to safer and more efficient care.
“This recent implementation is especially unique and special as it not only helps caregivers more effectively treat cancer patients and manage medications over time through better access to information, but also helps them find and enrol in new, potentially life-saving therapies all within the EHR.”
