How to managing the threat of infection:

In these fast changing and challenging times, improving healthcare is a great challenge for technology, with equally gives great rewards in return. Access to better care is a key determinant of our quality of life, and technology is becoming the reliable basis which allows us to develop the most exciting tools to protect and improve our health globally. We live in a world which pins its hopes on technology to deal with some of the most complicated problems humanity is facing globally, leaving many of us wondering, what's the next breakthrough for technology? Uncharted and challenging time has heightened the need for solutions to assist with the growing demands placed on the health sector. Primarily, there is a need to manage the potential threat of infection in all areas of healthcare.

Every year an estimated 180,000 Australians are impacted by infections associated with healthcare. Altogether, these patients occupy an additional 2 million hospital bed days. So how can we improve health outcomes, minimise prolonged hospital stays, and reduce hidden costs?

Let us introduce Multiprac Cloud Infection Control Solution Software powered by Ocean Health Systems for protection of patients and healthcare facilities. Multiprac is a destination point for data and infection control for patients and practitioners, developed by practitioners. By combining the best of technologies with industry standards, Multiprac takes the stress out of the practitioners every day by helping them focus on what they do best – caring for patients. Built on Ocean Health System’s openEHR platform, the system is designed by some of the world’s leading health informaticians, guided by international standards and best practice, to deliver a feature-packed product.

Multiprac draws data from multiple sources, patient management systems and pathology, combining this information with analytical capability and reporting to help manage infection outbreaks and avoid hospital readmissions. Using Multiprac to manage bloodstream infection investigations, our customers have significantly reduced Hospital Acquired Infections across multiple facilities. Infection trends patterns and patient clinical outcomes can be measured, reviewed. This changes the focus from the complexities of tertiary care to the simplicities of caring for one that affects many.