PowerHealth helps NSW healthcare exectives make wise funding decisions

Theen Moy
Wednesday, 22 April 2009 08:21

PowerHealth Solutions has successfully completed the implementation of its costing software state-wide across all the New South Wales 8 area health services.
 
This was a major project as New South Wales is Australia's most populous state and has over 220 public hospitals providing health care services to their population of just under 7 million.

The NSW Health Department has implemented the PowerPerformance Management system to consolidate hospital financial, clinical and operational information, and deliver the evidence base required for hospital executives to decide how to spend available funds wisely.

NSW Health project manager Vineet Makhija said, "It was a risk to implement a new system in such short timelines, but the product delivered given the tight deadlines."

Evie Karagiannis from PowerHealth Solutions said, "The implementation has been a success. As our system is flexible and scales well, we were able to centralise the processing at the area health service level, which now frees up the hospital costing analysts to focus on the analysis, therefore adding value to the organization, rather than spending all their time simply building databases."

During this time, the NSW Health Department also took the opportunity to standardise their costing methodology across all area health services. This has provided them with more robust and comparative costing information, as well as a faster and more efficient data collation process.