MercyAscot buys Intersystems EMR

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eHealthNews.nz editor Rebecca McBeth 

MercyAscot hospitals will implement a full electronic medical record from InterSystems over the next three years.

The private healthcare provider has signed a contract with InterSystems for its TrakCare product to replace and extend its existing patient administration and clinical information systems. 

It has also signed a contract with New Zealand-based cloud computing company Umbrellar, which specialises in digital transformation.

MercyAscot chief executive Geoff Sparkes says staff have been working over the past two years to scope the project. Implementation will start in January 2019 and full roll-out is estimated to take “a couple of years”.

“When we saw the need to replace our administrative and clinical systems, a central element in our digital health strategy, we wanted a unified system that would help improve delivery of care for our patients while enabling our clinicians and other staff to perform at their very best,” says Sparkes.

“We wanted a long-term partnership with providers who could offer thought leadership and support to help us to digitally transform” he says.

InterSystems Asia Pacific managing director Kerry Stratton says the implementation at MercyAscot “will transform care delivery and streamline operational and clinical processes.

“TrakCare will enable clinicians at MercyAscot to make informed decisions more quickly and improve safety, efficiency and patient experience,” he says.

A statement from MercyAscot says the organisation “knew it needed to leverage cloud computing capabilities to deliver benefits in interoperability, potential long-term scalability and a data platform with the capability to unlock actionable insights from patient data”.

Umbrellar chief executive Michael Foley says the MercyAscot project is a perfect fit for the company’s multi-cloud platform and services because of its focus on leveraging data to drive patient-centric, value-based care.

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