METRO SOUTH HEALTH
Metro South Health drives innovation with its Digital Hospital Program . CIO Cameron Ballantine explains how the Queensland provider embraces business intelligence and analytics to deliver superior care via a real time view of patient information
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M etro South Health provides healthcare
services to 1.3mn people in Brisbane city with five in-patient facilities offering a total of 2,100 beds . It became the first digitalised health service in Australia following the recent implementation of its integrated medical record ( IMR ). “ Both the executive and the senior clinical leadership group see this as a unique and exciting platform to be able to innovate from ,” says Metro South Health CIO Cameron Ballantine , who believes it ’ s vital in order to converge additional technologies and bring a higher level of efficiency and productivity to the health system .
Innovations are welcomed at Metro South Health but for Ballantine , the key to healthcare is integration : “ Integrating different siloed systems and applications to be able to present a more holistic and real time view of patients ’ information to clinicians is critical to delivering the efficiencies and productivities we need to generate out of the
MAY 2019