A COMPASS for integrated care: Delivering value in paediatric mental health
A COMPASS for integrated care: Delivering value in paediatric mental health
Delivering the integrated, multidisciplinary care that people and communities increasingly need is inherently challenging in Australia’s highly siloed healthcare system. Value-based health care provides a framework for services to come together around the needs of individuals, with the aim of not only driving improvements in the outcomes and experiences of consumers – but also in […]
Understanding our workforce
Shifting to Value Based Health Care: An Allied Health Lens
Authors: Krystal Wallis In 2022, EPC adopted a Value-Based Health Care approach to improve community palliative care. An external review of the Allied Health team, which includes social work, massage therapy, music therapy, and volunteer services, highlighted several challenges: The number of clients and their care needs were increasing, but funding wasn’t keeping up. All […]
Amplifying the voices of children in their healthcare through routine outcome measurement: Co-design & pilot of the P-PROM ROCK program.
Authors: Renee Jones, Kim Dalziel, Harriet Hiscock, Nancy Devlin In healthcare, we often measure children’s health through clinical tests or scans. However, these don’t capture how children themselves experience their health and wellbeing. Paediatric Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (P-PROMs) fill this gap by letting children and their caregivers share their perspective on their health. Currently, only […]
patient centric outcomes results
Authors: Farid Kalantari Enhance patient outcomes through specialized monitoring and personalized health advice, focusing on early disease detection and management.
Paediatric Rheumatology and Digital Health Innovation
Authors: Andrea Coda I pioneered two digital health platform, called ‘Alexia’ (ISERN Medical Telecom) (2022) and ‘Interactive Clinics’ (2019). These consumer driven technologies enable patients, carers and clinicians to track (via smartphone, tablet and PC) various health outcomes in real-time such as pain assessment, medication adherence, physical activity progress, heart rate, body hydration, mental health state and LGTBQI+ specific outcomes. I also contributed to the creation […]
Reducing post-operative length of stay for patients undergoing TURP & TURBNI
Authors: Wen Jia Tan, Hong Chan, Han Jie Lee, Jia Xuan Yeo, Bryan Zhi Shen Boey, Jiping Peng, Karine Sim, Vivenn Rou Wei Chua, Hery Yanto, Edwin Jonathan Aslim, Hairil Rizal Bin Abdullah, John Shyi Peng Yuen, Juriyah Bte Yatim Transurethral Resection of Prostate (TURP) was a procedure identified by SGH to adopt the Value […]
Transforming Back Pain Care: Smarter Pathways, Better Outcomes
Authors: Gustavo Machado, Danielle Coombs, Chris Maher, Bethan Richards, Eileen Rogan, Min Jiat Teng, Lorraine Ho Back pain is in the top 5 most common reasons people seek emergency care. However, healthcare systems often rely on opioids, hospital admissions, and ambulance transport due to a lack of effective alternative care. Our program directly aligns with […]
Healthier Wealthier Families (HWF): Supporting caregivers by addressing financial hardship through primary healthcare
Authors: Anna Price, Natalie White, Lynn Kemp, Sharon Goldfeld During the first 1000 days of life (conception to 2 years), our brains develop more rapidly than at any other time, laying the foundation for ongoing health and development. Financial hardship can disrupt this foundational period and undermine the health and wellbeing of children and families. […]