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      • Indigenous community successfully quits smoking
        August 2011

        Since the naturalistic study into smoking cessation in the Indigenous community in south-east Queensland began in late 2010, the program is showing great early results. A significant number of participants have quit smoking and those who continue to smoke have reduced their smoking intake by an average of about 4 cigarettes per day. The EpiSoft team warmly congratulates the Indigenous community, their harm reduction coaches and their clinical support team in general practice and community pharmacy on such excellent preliminary findings. We look forward to the final results.

      • Integrating the IBD Network
        September 2011

        The IBD Network is now receiving electronic lab results from a state pathology service provider. Labs are transmitted via HealthLink's secure messaging system as HL7. Doctors mark the pathology request as cc to EpiSoft and a copy of the results is delivered automatically to the clinician's inbox for review and import to the record. We have also developed a tool to synchronise the demographic import of data from a leading medical desktop vendor which is being trialled in South Australia. We are now working to integrate a regular data feed from a leading endoscopy reporting system on behalf of a Melbourne-based hospital.

      • EpiBots™ - great things in small packages
        October 2011

        Launched in the 3rd quarter of 2011, the first of our series of EpiBots™ are now actively trawling clinical trial datasets to raise data quality tasks for study co-ordinators. The POCER study team and study co-ordinators are first cab off the rank to evaluate these small but ultra-powerful algorithms that operate in conjunction with EpiSoft's clinician tasking module. With over 300,000 individual data points (and growing!) to review and sign off as validated and ready for lockdown, the POCER study monitor faces a mammoth task. Even with clear visibility of common data quality issues through real-time access to clinical trial reports, she still has to deal with them! Enter the EpiBots™ - EpiSoft study monitor's little helpers. No matter how much you enforce data quality at the time of data entry, issues of omission and discrepancy can still arise. These little programs working on already entered data find problems instantly, raise them with the relevant sites automatically and wait for them to be resolved via an online conversation between study co-ordinator and monitor within the EpiTasking module. The next in our series of EpiBots™ will be launched shortly - the EpiBot™ initiative is a revolution in clinical trial data management efficiency.

      • New focus on mental health
        November 2011

        We have recently released a number of enhancements to the Focus Mental Health community. Clinicians now have an improved consolidated view of the patient record combining demographics, referrals, appointments, and clinical history in the one page. Clinicians also have a home page that will help them manage their case load with lists of current patients and pending appointments; this makes for quicker navigation straight to the most relevant patient records. The Focus user community will also be evaluating our new improved method for record autosave to prevent loss of data in the event the user loses their network session for whatever reason.

      • Facts and Figures 3 years on
        December 2011

        EpiSoft communities continue to grow with around 20,000 patient records in our various communities and over 80,000 episodes of care. During 2011, we welcomed our sixth state of Australia to the IBD Network and saw a steady increase in take-up by clinicians in New Zealand hospitals.

      • eADMISSIONS is online and on target!
        December 2011

        Launched for limited release at a leading private hospital in October, this secure website for patients to enter all their administrative and clinical data in advance of a hospital admission is achieving target take-up rates prior to the main launch planned for early 2012. Click here to read more about this exciting new eHealth initiative.

      • IBD record share
        December 2011

        Many patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease are young and geographically mobile. We are launching our new record share function this Christmas that will be used by a number of IBD centres but which is also available as a core function to all new communities. The record share will allow a patient's longitudinal health record to be shared, with patient consent, with other facilities in the community. Modifications to the record will be visible to the patient's regular care team supporting continuity of care for patients with IBD.

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