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Smarter Healthcare
We have an opportunity to transform Australia’s healthcare systems to: optimise operational performance; deliver patient-centric care; and make better use of health information.
Why?
The rising cost of services, the growth of Australia’s ageing and overweight populations, the shortage of clinical skills and the limited access to health information and treatments are pushing Australia’s health system to the limit. This is not only putting individual Australians at risk, as a country, we need to reduce the incidence of illness, injury and chronic disease to boost our workforce productivity and participation.
What?
A smarter healthcare system starts with better connections, better data, and faster and more detailed analysis. It means giving individuals the opportunity for greater ownership of their own health information. It means integrating our data and centering it on the patient, so each health professional has access to all relevant information and can make the right diagnosis and treatment decisions as quickly as possible. It also means moving away from paper records, to reduce medical errors and improve efficiencies. And it means applying advanced analytics to vast amounts of health data, to support improved population health outcomes.
With a smart healthcare system we can:
- Make better use of our limited health resources
- Empower patients to take greater responsibility for their health
- Ensure every Australian benefits from global health research
How?
Optimise operational performance…
by streamlining clinical processes and using technology to deliver both cost efficiencies and better clinical outcomes
Cumbersome work practices, archaic IT systems and limited connectivity are wasting hundreds of millions of dollars each year and putting lives at risk. As a matter of urgency, Australia needs to connect its primary health care providers, hospitals and patients and have digital records available wherever a patient presents.
SMART IS Accessing an individual’s full medical and family history with one view.
SMART IS Standardising clinical practices across the Australian health system by integrating information between healthcare institutions.
SMART IS Optimising processes using operational performance data and clinical and business results.
Deliver patient-centric care…
By encouraging personal responsibility for healthier choices, while shifting our focus toward patient-centred activities
Our health systems should connect Australians to information, to experts and to each other – to help them to act proactively to support their own health and those they care for.
SMART IS Enabling individuals to access their medical records from anywhere in the world
SMART IS Giving people real-time line of sight and responses to individual health information
SMART IS Connecting communities with remote healthcare professionals
Make better use of health information…
With a focus on more personalised prevention, prediction, early detection and treatment
More complete health information will help us to better predict, prevent, detect and treat disease. At the micro level, this will mean using real-time and holistic data to speed insights and increase confidence that medical decisions will yield the best outcomes for an individual patient. At the macro level, we can analyse entire populations to gain deeper understanding into the nature and treatment of different diseases.
SMART IS Analysing, reporting and predicting the progression and impact of chronic diseases like diabetes, heart disease or stroke
SMART IS Analysing events generated in monitoring data to prevent a future acute episode
SMART IS Tracking and reporting infectious diseases to intervene early and keep people well
When?
NOW! There’s no better time to start building a smarter healthcare system – focused on providing excellent healthcare, by optimising operational performance, allowing collaboration between providers and individuals and using more complete information to predict, prevent and treat disease.
Let IBM work together with you to drive real progress in Australia.
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