OTTAWA, ON, Oct. 27 /PRNewswire/ - DINMAR, a leading North American healthcare information technology company, announced today that the South Australia Department of Health (SADH) has signed a contract for the Medication Management Module of the Oacis Order Management application. Already in use by over 1,000 doctors across the state of South Australia, Oacis Order Management has helped to streamline the delivery of many routine clinical services. The addition of the Medication Management Module is expected to completely automate the electronic ordering process and have a significant impact on improved patient safety as well as reduce drug administration costs region- wide.
Oacis Order Management is a powerful tool for improving patient safety and encouraging "best practices." Prior to order submission, Oacis alerts the clinician regarding potential duplicate orders, drug interactions and treatment conflicts and it also recommends additional site-approved "companion" orders. These on-line decision support assistants reduce errors and support delivery of high quality, cost-effective care. The system also provides the physician with on-line dosing information and informs doctors of the medication benefits for which the patient is eligible such as the Australian Pharmacy Benefits System (PBS) which is being integrated with Oacis as part of SADH's implementation.
"DINMAR is one of the only EHR suppliers to offer a Medication Management Module that does not require the replacement of existing pharmacy systems," commented Mark Groper, DINMAR's CEO. "The Oacis EHR is purpose-built to connect and interoperate with existing and new systems - and this helps our customers to protect and extend current capital investments. Moreover, this flexible approach helps to reduce the significant human retraining costs and possible patient safety risks associated with replacing all clinical information systems at once," concluded Mr. Groper.
Oacis EHR provides a modular suite of core clinical applications, off-the- shelf and custom interfaces, as well as a built-in integration engine and enterprise master person index facility. Organizations can quickly and economically connect their unique and ever changing information systems with the Oacis EHR. In fact, where diverse clinical systems coexist, Oacis provides a "unifying" clinical data repository that enables a single, integrated electronic patient record.
South Australia's Department of Health has been expanding access and usage of Oacis EHR consistently for almost a decade and it's one of the largest and most successful state-wide electronic health record deployments in the world. Due to its inherent interoperability, a highly attractive aspect of Oacis is the modular method by which it can be purchased and installed. This enables care delivery organizations large and small to deploy functionality in line with financial budgets as well the ability to stage-in and effectively absorb the impact on the clinical process. With respect to medication ordering through Oacis, this is one of the final steps towards realizing the benefits of South Australia's vision for a statewide EHR.
ABOUT DINMAR
DINMAR is a leading North American healthcare information technology solutions provider. The company's Oacis product was instrumental in launching the "open systems" revolution, which spawned many innovative technologies and clinical-interoperability standards in commercial use today. For more information, please visit www.dinmar.com .
ABOUT SOUTH AUSTRALIA'S DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
The Australian public healthcare system is funded and governed, at differing levels, by the Commonwealth and State Governments to provide access to free healthcare for all Australians. The South Australian Department of Health (SADH) is the governing body for public health services in that State. The careconnect.sa Programme (previously the Oacis Programme) is coordinated within the SADH Information and Communications Technology Services' Projects Branch. Oacis has currently been implemented across seven of the eight major metropolitan hospitals of South Australia's capital city of Adelaide, which service 75% of the State's population of 1.5 million.
Source: DINMAR CONSULTING, INC.
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