Health IT company Personify Care has been awarded an A$5.6 million ($3.7 million) deal from SA Health to expand its digital patient pathway project statewide over the next two years.
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The project was launched in 2021 as a proof of concept between Personify Care and the Central Adelaide Local Health Network (CALHN), with support from the South African government’s Go2Gov program. Digital Patient Pathways have been implemented in over 20 specialties and in Royal Adelaide Hospital, Queen Elizabeth Hospital and SA Dental. Since then, it has eased the burden on frontline hospital staff while providing patients with convenient access to care.
in that year report CALHN detailed the following to the government last year: Improve patient experience. “
Following initial trials, Personify Care’s digital patient pathway is being rolled out to a variety of use cases across the network.and Queen Elizabeth Hospital used them to digitize its direct access colonoscopy program, reducing wait times for patients seeking an endoscopy or colonoscopy.
CALHN also launched using Personify Care’s platform My Prehab is a pre-operative rehabilitation program that helps patients prepare for surgery.
Elsewhere in SA, the Northern Adelaide Local Health Network is also working with Personify Care to Pregnancy Online Platform NALHN is a digital prenatal care platform that enables personalized support for pregnant women while reducing the administrative burden on midwives.
again, Barossa Hills Fleurieu Local Health Network leveraged Personify Care to enhance its surgical admission process with digital pathways. Previously it took him an hour, now it takes him 12 minutes.
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“We are excited to expand our partnership with SA Health, and to help frontline nurses, clinicians and staff spend more time with outpatient appointments and elective surgery patients. We look forward to supporting clinical teams in developing new models of care that reduce wait times for patients, giving them time to deliver high-value care to patients who need it most,” said CEO of Personify Care. says Ken Saman. Healthcare IT news.
