METRO SOUTH HEALTH
“ IT is no longer a service into healthcare : it is fundamentally part of healthcare ”
— Cameron Ballantine , CIO , Metro South Health
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One of the pillars of Metro ’ s digital health strategic framework is business intelligence . “ We ’ re looking at partnering with both different sectors of industry and academia to look at use cases and run precision analytics and machine learning ,” reveals Ballantine . “ For example , we would look at predictive analytics in and around our emergency departments . At a given point in the day , we run a machine learning algorithm over it to analyse the acuity and seriousness of the conditions of the patient in ED , and that will present information to the clinical decision makers about what they need to address next to avoid the ED becoming congested .” Currently , Metro is partnering with a vendor to develop this solution , which will build on its existing real time patient information including the number of patients , their condition and their stage in the care cycle .
Managing the flow of care is a priority for Ballantine with tertiary level emergency departments in Queensland under inordinate stress across the system .
MAY 2019