Milestone for iSOFT installations in NZ, Australia

Peter Dinham
Thursday, 09 July 2009 11:26

IT Industry - Deals

Australian-listed health information technology vendor, iSOFT has claimed a company milestone with the completion of more than 30 installations of its web-based patient administration system, webPAS, in Australia and New Zealand this year.

iSOFT managing director for Australian and New Zealand, Denis Tebbutt, said today eight sites had gone live on the one day at the beginning of June, including four with Healthscope and two with Catholic Health.

Tebbutt said the 357-bed Murdoch St John of God hospital in Perth was among the largest of the installations – and was the client’s first go-live using iSOFT’s solution in Western Australia following a roll out at all of its hospitals in Victoria last year.
 
“Murdoch is the first to use iSOFT’s new integrated bed board, assisting managers in the complex task of bed allocation.”

According to Tebbutt, iSOFT’s webPAS is running at 10 Healthscope hospitals, with a further nine sites due to go live before the end of the year. The ten hospitals already installed are Northpark Private, Lady Davidson, Brisbane Waters, Newcastle Private, Victoria Clinic, Bellbird Private, Tweeds Day Surgery, Parkwynd Private, Griffiths Private, and North Eastern Private.

“The webPAS solution was also installed at 12 Southern Cross hospitals across New Zealand, plus the Braemar Private Hospital in Hamilton. It is also live at six Independent Private Hospitals of Australia sites at Essendon, Holyroyd, Longueville, Sydney, Mountain District and Malvern. WebPAS was also installed in four Catholic Health hospitals: Hawkesbury District, Lithgow Private, Lourdes Private in Dubbo, and St Vincents Bathurst.”

Tebbutt claimed that to have more than 30 successful installations this year “demonstrates an incredible capacity within our business to understand the clients’ needs and to deliver on their requirements.

“This is a level of delivery unequalled in this market and shows how we are focused on enabling our clients to deliver better healthcare outcomes through the utilisation of modern technology.”