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Introduction:

Montefiore Homes in New South Wales replaced its paper-based medication rounds with a portable care system. From residents' rooms, this trolley uploads clinical information which remote staff and general practitioners can monitor and assess.

Male:

We've effectively converted a standard trolley into a very sophisticated clinical monitoring system. They can both do medications management, and as well can be taken into a patient's room, and can help the nurse take a blood pressure measurement, an ECG measurement, a spirometry a lung function measurement, measure his weight, calculate and derive his pulsic symmetry, measure his body temperature, and it then becomes available immediately to the care team. When they enter that patient's file, they can see all the clinical signs, everything about the patient's vital signs is recorded there.

Male 2:

We can look to see if the medications we've prescribed are having the effects we'd like them to have. We can monitor that from afar.

Male 3:

It reduces a great deal of strain in often signing 120, 130 times in one round for the medications. It reduces the onerous demands on them to make sure that every medication is dispensed correctly because the system facilitates that process, it spells that out very clearly for them.

Male 4:

Major industry sectors invest typically 10-15% of their gross in IT. They don't do this simply because it's a good thing to do, they do it because it creates great efficiencies, there's very definite clear cost benefits arising out of it, and it also allows people to be much more effective and collaborative in the way they work.

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