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Nearly 700 new features and enhancements to drive financial and clinical improvements
NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. – June 17, 2025 – Altera Digital Health, a global health IT leader, today announced the general availability of Sunrise™ 25.1, the latest release of its complete electronic health record (EHR) system for mid-size hospitals and health systems. Designed in close collaboration with clients, Sunrise 25.1 introduces nearly 700 updates and new features that sharpen financial and ambulatory workflows, streamline navigation, minimize the cognitive load for users and make critical information accessible at the point of care.
While hospital margins improved in 2024, healthcare organizations continue to grapple with competitive labor market conditions, increasing costs and a rise in bad debt and charity care. Sunrise 25.1 addresses these realities by embedding best-practice workflows and flexible configuration tools that support revenue integrity, clinical productivity and enterprise-wide efficiency. For example, the Sunrise™ Financial Manager module contains a billing hub that consolidates billing requests, claims and self-pay into three easily accessible tabs that streamline workflows for staff members across the revenue cycle.
Sunrise 25.1 also represents a significant uplift in clinical workflow satisfaction and efficiency for clients. Within Sunrise™ Ambulatory Care, enhanced patient management features include a unified list for appointments and walk-ins, easy location viewing, enhanced visual cues and clinical assignments, and new mini-views that enable users to toggle between patients with a single click. On the acute side, users can enter, view and maintain orders at the patient level and enter queries without exact search term requirements. Additionally, Sunrise™ Mobile’s new, intuitive icons and modernized user interface enable clinicians to use the system more seamlessly so they can focus more on patient care.
“This release brings meaningful advancements to the front lines of care and operations, delivering tools that help teams move faster, work smarter and make strides where it matters most to them,” said Shanna DeLeo, SVP of Development for Sunrise, Altera Digital Health. “Sunrise 25.1 is a direct result of listening to our clients and a commitment to continuous progress. I am incredibly proud of the Sunrise team for delivering on our promise to keep elevating healthcare for clinicians, staff members and the patients they serve.”
Learn more about new product features and enhancements in Sunrise 25.1 here.
About Altera Digital Health
A global healthcare IT leader, Altera Digital Health develops and elevates technology to bring next-level healthcare within reach. Altera’s approach to our solutions is changing the way healthcare is delivered—we see the summit of what healthcare can be, but rather than total transformation, we’re focused on helping organizations take the steps they need to get there. Altera designs digital health services that lead healthcare to a higher place, while we guide those we partner with, all along the way. To learn more, visit www.alterahealth.com.
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Australia, May 2025 – Altera Digital Health is proud to announce the successful activation of its integrated operating theatre system at Latrobe Regional Health (LRH), one of the hospital members of Gippsland Health Alliance (GHA). GHA has been leveraging Sunrise as its enterprise-wide electronic health record (EHR) platform, utilising Microsoft Azure to enhance interoperability, security, and scalability across its network.
As part of its ongoing digital transformation, GHA has now implemented an anaesthesia information management system (AIMS) platform called Provation® iPro to integrate with Sunrise at LRH. This milestone deployment of Sunrise Surgical Care and Provation iPro AIMS streamlines theatre management and clinical documentation, enabling efficient surgical scheduling and ensuring a seamless patient experience with a single clinical record from pre-admission to discharge.
A Streamlined Approach to Theatre Management
The successful deployment of Sunrise Surgical Care at LRH marks the first implementation of this advanced surgical management solution in Australia. Fully integrated with Sunrise EHR, Sunrise Surgical Care enhances efficiency by enabling real-time tracking of theatre utilisation, optimised scheduling, and improved resource allocation. This implementation reinforces LRH’s commitment to delivering high-quality, patient-centric care by reducing administrative burdens and ensuring timely access to critical surgical data.
Sunrise Surgical Care also plays a key role in supporting a continuous, single patient record from perioperative care to discharge. By providing clinicians with a comprehensive view of each patient’s surgical journey, the system strengthens communication between healthcare providers and enhances patient safety and outcomes.
Additionally, the deployment of the Provation iPro AIMS platform spans 12 operating theatres and 18 Post-Anaesthetic Care Unit (PACU) beds at LRH. Designed by practicing anaesthetists, Provation iPro streamlines electronic anaesthesia documentation throughout the entire perioperative encounter, standardises the collection of quality measures, and even streamlines billing processes.
Provation iPro’s integration with Sunrise Surgical Care creates a seamless user experience, eliminating manual, redundant data entry. With this technology, Pre-Admissions clinics have transitioned from paper to digital records, populating data from Pre-Admission assessments into the day-of-surgery record, streamlining the theatre admission process.
Provation iPro’s autovitals feature wirelessly streams patient vitals from anaesthesia monitor machines directly into the clinical record. With this, alongside a number of other thoughtful features, including picture-documentation, pre-filled procedure templates, and hard-stops, providers can refocus their attention on the patient while simultaneously producing a more complete, compliant, legible anaesthesia record.
Unlike traditional paper systems, these digital records can now be accessed and viewed by multiple clinicians across multiple locations simultaneously, enhancing collaboration and ensuring all relevant information is available in real time.
To keep families informed, LRH has introduced a “Patient Procedure Tracker” board in waiting areas, providing real-time updates on which stage of the theatre journey their loved one is in — whether they are in pre-op, surgery, or recovery. This helps reduce uncertainty and minimises the need for calls to reception.
Advancing Digital Transformation in Healthcare
Latrobe Regional Health’s adoption of this operating theatre system marks a significant step in its digital transformation journey. By leveraging advanced clinical technology, LRH is setting a new standard for theatre efficiency, patient management, and operational effectiveness.
Jon Millar, Chief Operating Officer at LRH, added, “This deployment at LRH showcases our strong partnership with Altera. Leveraging this technology enhances patient experiences and ensures seamless care delivery across our facility. Performing more than 10,000 surgical procedures per year, LRH is utilising this system to enhance efficiency, streamline workflows, and improve patient care. The ability to maintain a single clinical record from pre-admission to discharge is a game-changer for both staff and patients.”
Todd Haebich, EVP, APAC at Altera Digital Health, shared, “The successful activation of Sunrise Surgical Care and Provation iPro at Latrobe Regional Health is a significant milestone for Altera, Provation, and Gippsland Health Alliance. By equipping healthcare facilities with advanced tools, we empower clinicians to enhance patient care while optimising workflows. This deployment highlights our ongoing commitment to supporting digital innovation in healthcare.”
Enhancing Patient Care Through Integration
This launch aligns with the recent $223.5 million expansion of Latrobe Regional Health in Traralgon, which has significantly increased the hospital’s capacity and services. With this multi-stage project now complete, local families can access world-class care closer to home, further strengthening the impact of Sunrise Surgical Care and Provation iPro in delivering high-quality patient outcomes.
For clinicians, these systems reduce the need for manual data entry, produce legible, complete anaesthesia records, minimise duplication of records, and enhance visibility into real-time theatre utilisation. These efficiencies contribute to better resource planning, fewer delays, and improved surgical outcomes.
Commitment to Innovation and Excellence
This deployment reinforces Altera’s commitment to supporting healthcare innovation across the region, ensuring that hospitals and clinicians have the tools they need to deliver exceptional care now and into the future.
About Altera Digital Health
A global healthcare IT leader, Altera Digital Health develops and elevates technology to bring next-level healthcare within reach. Altera’s approach to our solutions is changing the way healthcare is delivered—we see the summit of what healthcare can be, but rather than total transformation, we’re focused on helping organizations take the steps they need to get there. Altera designs digital health services that lead healthcare to a higher place, while we guide those we partner with, all along the way. To learn more, visit www.alterahealth.com.
About Provation
Provation is a leading provider of healthcare software and SaaS solutions, dedicated to empowering providers to deliver quality healthcare for all. Our comprehensive portfolio offers clinical productivity software that spans the entire patient encounter in the Anesthesia and GI (Gastroenterology) practices.
With a purpose-driven approach, Provation aims to streamline and enhance healthcare workflows for improved patient outcomes. Provation has a loyal customer base, serving more than 700 physician groups globally. In 2021, Provation was acquired by Fortive Corporation, a Fortune 1000 company that builds essential technology and accelerates transformation in high-impact fields like workplace safety, engineering, and healthcare. For more information about our solutions, visit provationmedical.com and follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn.
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Recertification underscores organizational dedication to quality and reliability
NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. – April 22, 2025 – Altera Digital Health, a global health IT leader, today announced that its Sunrise™ suite of solutions has successfully achieved ISO 9001:2015 recertification following the completion of a comprehensive external audit conducted by NQA. The new certificate is now in effect and covers the full three-year cycle through 2028.
The ISO 9001 standard sets globally recognized requirements for quality management systems, which support organizations’ efforts to consistently provide products and services that meet customer and regulatory expectations. Recertification affirms compliance and a deep integration of quality principles across operations—from development and deployment to support and continuous improvement.
The Sunrise electronic health record (EHR) system provides a single clinical and financial patient record across acute and ambulatory care venues, helping hospitals and health systems to deliver exceptional patient care, streamline billing processes and gain valuable insights into patient outcomes. The ISO recertification coincides with the upcoming June 2025 release of Sunrise 25.1, which introduces nearly 700 new features driven by feedback from clinicians and health IT leaders that enhance workflow efficiency, reduce complexity and improve system usability.
“Altera’s commitment to continuous improvement isn’t just about meeting standards—it’s about exceeding expectations and earning trust with every release,” said Jay Adams, Executive Vice President, Sunrise, Altera Digital Health. “This recertification is a testament to the discipline, focus and professionalism our Sunrise team brings to the table every day to raise the bar for ourselves and for the clients we serve. Altera extends its thanks to all those who participated in the 2025 ISO 9001 external audits for their essential contributions to this successful outcome.”
For more information about Sunrise, visit alterahealth.com/sunrise.
About Altera Digital Health
A global healthcare IT leader, Altera Digital Health develops and elevates technology to bring next-level healthcare within reach. Altera’s approach to our solutions is changing the way healthcare is delivered—we see the summit of what healthcare can be, but rather than total transformation, we’re focused on helping organizations take the steps they need to get there. Altera designs digital health services that lead healthcare to a higher place, while we guide those we partner with, all along the way. To learn more, visit www.alterahealth.com.
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Australia, April 2025 – Altera Digital Health is proud to announce the successful statewide activation of the Sunrise™ Electronic Medical Record (EMR) and Patient Administration System (PAS) across all South Australian public hospitals. South Australia Health and Altera Digital Health are delighted that South Australia is the first state in Australia to activate a statewide EMR and PAS across all hospitals and health services in both metropolitan and rural areas. This milestone marks a major advancement in digital healthcare transformation, providing clinicians with a fully integrated, real-time patient record system that enhances efficiency, improves care coordination, and optimises patient outcomes.
The patient electronic medical record used in South Australia is a state-based system called Sunrise EMR & PAS (Sunrise EMR), which integrates electronic medical records (EMR) and patient administration systems (PAS) into a unified platform. This system ensures that clinicians across the state have real-time access to patient data, promoting coordinated, patient-centered care throughout South Australia’s public healthcare network.
The Sunrise EMR platform is now live across almost 100 sites throughout South Australia, ensuring that patients’ medical histories, treatment plans, and clinical data are accessible across the state’s public health system. This initiative represents a significant step toward a connected and efficient healthcare network, enabling providers to deliver safer, more informed, and timely care.
Transforming Healthcare in One of the World’s Largest Healthcare Jurisdictions
South Australia is the fourth-largest state in Australia, covering 983,482 square kilometres—a landmass significantly larger than any European country. To put it in perspective, South Australia is:
- About 10 times the size of the UK
- About 5 times the size of Germany
- 5 times the size of Texas
- Larger than any U.S. state except for Alaska
Despite its vast geographical expanse, South Australia has a low population density of approximately 1.7 people per square kilometer, presenting unique challenges in delivering consistent, high-quality healthcare across remote, rural, and metropolitan areas. The activation of Sunrise EMR ensures that no matter where a patient receives care—whether in the heart of Adelaide or a regional hospital hundreds of kilometers away—their medical information is instantly available to clinicians.
Key Benefits of a Statewide EMR
The activation of Sunrise EMR eliminates paper-based processes and integrates real-time patient information, enabling healthcare professionals to make faster, data-driven clinical decisions.
- A single, continuous patient record across all SA public hospitals, ensuring seamless care transitions.
- Real-time access to clinical information, reducing duplication of tests and improving patient safety.
- Integrated workflows that streamline hospital operations and support better resource management.
- Enhanced communication between care teams, ensuring coordinated treatment and improved patient experiences.
A Milestone in South Australia’s Digital Health Strategy
This statewide activation aligns with South Australia’s long-term digital health strategy, which aims to modernise hospital systems and improve patient outcomes through advanced technology. By implementing Sunrise EMR, SA Health is future-proofing its healthcare infrastructure, ensuring that clinicians have the right information at the right time to deliver high-quality, patient-centric care.
Demonstrating System Utilisation
The Sunrise EMR system is already making a significant impact across South Australia’s public health network:
- 5 million+ people have a Sunrise electronic medical record, ensuring continuity of care across the state.
- Over 18 million inpatient, outpatient, and emergency department (ED) encounters have been recorded in the system.
- More than 4,900 hospital beds across South Australia are managed within Sunrise.
- On average, 9,300+ concurrent users access the system at any given time, supporting real-time clinical decision-making.
- 921,687 patients have attended multiple Sunrise-enabled sites, demonstrating the system’s effectiveness in linking care across different locations.
Commitment to Innovation and Excellence
Altera Digital Health has been a part of South Australia’s digital healthcare journey, supporting the rollout of Sunrise EMR with dedicated implementation, training, and support.
Todd Haebich, EVP, APAC at Altera Digital Health, shared, “The successful activation of Sunrise EMR across all SA public hospitals is a testament to our strong partnership with SA Health. By leveraging the power of a unified, real-time electronic medical record, we are helping to drive meaningful improvements in patient care, operational efficiency, and clinical collaboration throughout the state.”
Looking Ahead
With Sunrise EMR now fully deployed across South Australia’s public hospitals and health services, including in the regions, the focus will shift towards optimising its use and expanding digital health initiatives to further enhance care delivery. SA Health and Altera Digital Health remain committed to leveraging healthcare technology to improve patient outcomes for all South Australians
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About Altera Digital Health
A global healthcare IT leader, Altera Digital Health develops and elevates technology to bring next-level healthcare within reach. Altera’s approach to our solutions is changing the way healthcare is delivered—we see the summit of what healthcare can be, but rather than total transformation, we’re focused on helping organisations take the steps they need to get there. Altera designs digital health services that lead healthcare to a higher place, while we guide those we partner with, all along the way. To learn more, visit www.alterahealth.com
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The Philippines, October 2024 – St. Luke’s Medical Center in the Philippines has gone live with Altera Digital Health’s Sunrise™ electronic health record (EHR) platform, marking its formal transition from paper to digital records.
St. Luke’s Medical Center is recognised as the leading healthcare institution in the Philippines and one of the most advanced hospitals in the world. The private hospital has more than 1,000 beds and manages over 48,000 admissions and 2.7 million outpatient consultations annually. Arguably the most advanced platform of its kind in the Philippines, Sunrise will be used across the centre’s Quezon City and Global City facilities.
A highly configurable solution with integrative capabilities, Sunrise is a comprehensive open platform that connects all aspects of care across the entire care continuum, complementing St. Luke’s patient-centered approach to clinical care. It is used by many of the leading hospitals and health systems in the APAC region, providing them with clinician-specific workflows, and adding support that can lead to improved clinical outcomes.
St. Luke’s is pleased to bring Altera’s Sunrise solution on board. This smarter, scalable technology can help deliver more responsive patient care. EHRs have increasingly been recognised for improving patient care and enhancing efficiencies in healthcare processes. The Sunrise platform’s support will enable St. Luke’s team to digitise data, streamline existing processes, and achieve further scalability while providing secure facilitation and management of patient records, supporting clinicians in delivering the best care possible to patients.
The adoption of Sunrise EHR can help St. Luke’s Medical Center evaluate the outcomes of its interventions and treatments for its patients. By digitising the complex processes of clinical care on the EHR platform, doctors and clinicians can collaborate and manage patients’ health records more effectively. Eliminating outdated, time-consuming administrative tasks, allows clinicians to better focus on contributing to more value-based care for their patients.
“At St. Luke’s Medical Center, we are enhancing patient care through the adoption of Altera’s Sunrise EHR platform. This advanced technology enables our clinicians to collaborate more efficiently, streamline processes, and maintain a strong focus on patient-centered care, all while securely managing health records,” said Dr. Dennis P. Serrano, President and Chief Executive Officer of St. Luke’s Medical Center.
Sunrise can also empower clinicians with clinical decision support functions, providing information to assist them in making the right decisions on medication for their patients and improving patient outcomes. Through its sophisticated connected medication management feature, doctors can leverage the platform promptly to check on their prescription’s proper dosing and any drug-to-drug interactions with their patients.
Using the Sunrise™ EHR platform, clinicians can get a unified view of their patient’s health records and better organise their care history while their patients are with St. Luke’s Medical Center. The platform can act as an information hub across the healthcare system, making it possible for clinicians to holistically review patients’ past notes and care plans, helping solve the problem of fragmented records that many patients with multiple care providers have.
“Altera Digital Health is heartened to have the opportunity to share the benefits of Sunrise with an esteemed healthcare institution like St. Luke’s Medical Center, and we look forward to supporting them in solving the information burden that many providers in the healthcare industry face,” said Todd Haebich, Executive Vice President, APAC.
“Our Sunrise EHR platform is designed with flexibility in mind, and we believe it will equip St. Luke’s Medical Center with the tools to optimise their digital processes to support their patient and clinician needs, paving the way for stronger and better care delivery, while better supporting healthcare practitioners’ workloads.”
About Altera Digital Health
A global healthcare IT leader, Altera Digital Health develops and elevates technology to bring next-level healthcare within reach. Altera’s approach to our solutions is changing the way healthcare is delivered—we see the summit of what healthcare can be, but rather than total transformation, we’re focused on helping organizations take the steps they need to get there. Altera designs digital health services that lead healthcare to a higher place, while we guide those we partner with, all along the way. To learn more, visit as.alterahealth.com.
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Adelaide, October 2024 – Altera Digital Health is pleased to announce the successful go-live of its advanced electronic chemotherapy prescribing solution, iQemo, at the Royal Adelaide Hospital (RAH), Central Adelaide Local Health Network. This milestone marks a significant expansion of the state-wide rollout of SA Health’s Enterprise Chemotherapy Prescribing System (ECPS), designed to enhance cancer treatment for both adults and children across South Australia.
The RAH is South Australia’s flagship hospital, providing a comprehensive range of the most complex clinical care to an estimated 85,000 inpatients and 400,000 outpatients each year. The RAH is one of Australia’s most technologically advanced healthcare facilities, integrating the latest innovations across health, education and research to deliver high-quality care. The implementation of iQemo is an example of technological advancement and lastest innovation in cancer care delivery.
The ECPS project supports the implementation of consistent and standardised systemic cancer therapy processes, improving cancer patient safety and outcomes. ECPS has been initiated to achieve the vision of safe and timely provision of high-quality, evidence-based cancer care to the South Australian population. Following the go-live at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, there are more than 450 clinicians and healthcare administrators manage over 1,000 patients in iQemo, including those who are chemotherapy inpatients and attend the Cancer Day Centre on a daily basis.
In addition to the Royal Adelaide Hospital, iQemo has been successfully implemented at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Lyell McEwin Hospital, as well as throughout the regional local health networks. The rollout of these sites is being progressively implemented, with the goal of completing all 21 public hospital sites across metropolitan and regional South Australia by the end of 2025, to support patients requiring chemotherapy.
Altera Digital Health, formerly known as Allscripts, secured the competitive contract to deliver this pioneering electronic chemotherapy prescribing solution for SA Health in 2021. iQemo is a stand-alone, cloud-based system exclusively available through Altera Digital Health in Australia and New Zealand. It aims to improve patient safety by streamlining the prescribing of complex chemotherapy treatments through its intuitive user interface, allowing clinicians to focus more on patient care and less on administrative tasks.
“Clinicians at these major hospitals are now experiencing the advantages of a tested solution that greatly improves workflow efficiency and most importantly patient safety” said Todd Haebich, Executive Vice President, APAC, Altera Digital Health. “These iQemo implementations in Australia mark a significant step forward in enhancing oncology services. Used standalone or by integrating with the existing Sunrise EMR, iQemo delivers an elevated standard of patient care and we are excited to expand this capability to other sites across South Australia.”
The iQemo solution includes predefined protocols, prescribing, scheduling, dispensing, chemotherapy administration and comprehensive reporting. As a web-based system, iQemo minimises the risk of human error in clinical settings, ensuring safer and more efficient treatment processes.
About Altera Digital Health
A global healthcare IT leader, Altera Digital Health develops and elevates technology to bring next-level healthcare within reach. Altera’s approach to our solutions is changing the way healthcare is delivered—we see the summit of what healthcare can be, but rather than total transformation, we’re focused on helping organizations take the steps they need to get there. Altera designs digital health services that lead healthcare to a higher place, while we guide those we partner with, all along the way. To learn more, visit au.alterahealth.com.
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MINDEF’s Sunrise EMR upgrades to Sunrise 22.1 and implements Altera Opal 22.1
Singapore, January 2024 – Altera Digital Health has completed a successful upgrade of Ministry of Defence’s (MINDEF) Sunrise™ EMR platform whilst also implementing Altera Opal to provide document management functionality. Both platforms are now running version 22.1, which offers an enhanced user experience and new features, and also represents the first upgrade to Sunrise in the Asia-Pacific region.
The award-winning, Sunrise-powered PACES 3 system has been deployed by the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) Medical Corps since 2016. It integrates with Singapore’s National Electronic Health Records system and enables soldiers to manage and book their own medical appointments, as well as access information on their medical history and previous interactions with health professionals, all of contributes to a greater sense of health ownership amongst members of MINDEF/SAF.
Sunrise Military provides core functionality for primary and acute care and many other key capabilities, including referral management, allied health, pharmacy and medical imaging, and patient portal. The solution also includes tools specifically designed to improve the delivery of healthcare for military organisations.
Altera Digital Health’s Todd Haebich, Executive Vice President, APAC, said that the upgrade to version 22.1 on both platforms was a job well done for the EMR team comprising Altera staff and SAF personnel.
“EMRs for military, by their very nature, are associated with the most stringent security requirements, and so an upgrade of this significance is testimony to the hard work and dedication of the team,” explained Mr. Haebich.
“MINDEF’s EMR helps support the health and readiness of its personnel to serve its nation, and because war zones, disaster areas and other environments where militaries operate are often far from home, the system has been equipped with advance mobility features so that clinicians can access the EMR from remote locations.”
COL (Dr) Mark Tan, SAF Medical Corps’ Operations Manager for PACES 3 expressed his appreciation to the Altera project team and its management for their support in making the upgrade a success.
He said, “SAF Medical Corps recognises and appreciates the ground support rendered by the Altera project team especially during Go-Live which helped to rapidly address any issues that cropped up.”
Sunrise 22.1 delivers an array of new features across its clinical and financial applications. These features enhance workflows, improve system performance, enable compliance with regulatory obligations and improve overall usability.
Altera Opal is a digital health record and is operational in many leading health services in Australia whilst also deployed as a document management solution as part of the Sunrise platform of health in Australia, Singapore, Philippines, Canada, US and the United Kingdom. Altera Opal 22.1 offers an enhanced user experience, up-to-date platform support and enhanced maintainability, as well as performance and security improvements.
About Altera Digital Health
A global healthcare IT leader, Altera Digital Health develops and elevates technology to connect and inspire healthier communities. Formerly the Allscripts Hospitals and Large Physician Practices business segment, Altera’s platform approach to our solutions is changing the way healthcare is delivered. Altera designs digital health services that lead healthcare to a higher place, while we guide those we partner with, all along the way. Together, with our clients, we’re bringing next-level healthcare within reach. To learn more, visit as.alterahealth.com.
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7 November 2023 – Altera Digital’s Health’s electronic chemotherapy prescribing solution has gone live at the Lyell McEwin Hospital in Adelaide as well as the Mount Gambier and Districts Health Service on South Australia’s Limestone Coast. The go-lives are the first in the state-wide rollout of SA Health’s Enterprise Chemotherapy Prescribing System (ECPS), which is being introduced to support the needs of both adults and children attending any of the 21 public hospital sites across metropolitan and country South Australia and who require chemotherapy treatment.
The Lyell McEwin Hospital (LMH) is a major tertiary hospital located in Adelaide, South Australia, that provides medical, surgical, diagnostic, emergency and support services to a population of more than 400,000 people living primarily in Adelaide’s north and north-eastern suburbs. The Mount Gambier Hospital is located 450 kilometres (280 mi) southeast of capital Adelaide and serves a population of nearly 30,000 people.
In 2021, Altera Digital Health (then known as Allscripts) won a competitive tender to deliver an electronic chemotherapy prescribing solution with SA Health.
iQemo is a stand-alone, cloud-based specialist chemotherapy prescribing solution exclusively available through Altera Digital Health in Australia and New Zealand. Designed to improve patient safety and accessible from virtually any device, iQemo simplifies the prescribing of complex treatments through its intuitive user interface, so users can spend more time with patients and less time writing prescriptions. It is a complete end-to-end solution that includes predefined regimens, prescribing, scheduling and dispensing, through to chemotherapy administration and reporting.
Altera Digital Health’s Todd Haebich, Executive Vice President, APAC, said that as a web-based solution, iQemo reduces risk in a clinical setting where even the smallest of human errors can have disastrous consequences.
“Clinicians at these two major hospitals are now realising the benefits of a tried and proven solution that greatly improves workflow efficiency and, most importantly, patient safety,” explained Mr. Haebich.
“These are the first two installations of iQemo in Australia and it is a significant milestone in the delivery of Oncology services in particular,” added Mr. Haebich. “iQemo is integrated with their existing EMR and it equates to an even better standard of patient care, and we look forward to introducing other sites across South Australia to this very capable technology.”
iQemo, will now be rolled out to the other SA Health hospitals and facilities that deliver cancer treatment services across South Australia.
The rollout of iQemo will now focus on regional hospitals and health centres across SA, with major sites such as the Royal Adelaide and Flinders hospitals scheduled for the first quarter of 2024. All major centres are expected to be using iQemo around the second quarter of 2024.
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25 July 2023 – Altera Digital Health’s partner Provation’s award-winning Provation iPro anaesthesia solution has gone live at the Waikato and Thames hospitals of Te Whatu Ora – Health New Zealand. With the solution now live, anaesthesia staff are reaping the benefits of a cloud-based Perioperative Clinical Information Management Solution (PCIMS).
The intuitive and easy-to-use Provation iPro Anaesthesia Information Management Systems (AIMS) has been successfully implemented in several hospitals across Australia and Singapore. Clinicians rely on its exceptional capability to produce complete, compliant, legible anaesthesia records, ultimately enhancing patient safety and maximising clinical efficiency to optimise workflows. It is the first installation of its kind in New Zealand and is hosted on Microsoft Azure, which offers significant security and scalability benefits.
Altera Digital Health won the contract to implement Provation iPro at Te Whatu Ora Waikato in September 2021 with project implementation commencing in mid-2022. Waikato Hospital is the major regional hospital in Hamilton, whilst Thames Hospital is a smaller hospital 100 kilometres north of Hamilton. Altera Digital Health has delivered the Provation iPro Anaesthesia Information Management System (AIMS), including Provation iPro Pre-Admission Testing (PAT), IntraOp, Acute Pain Management (APM), Post Anaesthesia Care Unit (PACU) and Analytics at both sites, collectively supporting 25 operating theatres (including 37 PACU beds), a delivery suite and catheterisation lab and approximately 180 users.
Altera Digital Health Executive Vice President for APAC Todd Haebich said that in implementing a robust digital health system spanning the entire patient journey from theatre and PACU to pain management, the cloud-based solution was perfected by Waikato clinicians.
“One of the main benefits of Provation iPro is that it can be readily configured and tailored to address the requirements of perioperative services at whatever clinical setting it is required for,” explained Mr. Haebich.
“It is also easily integrated with Clinical Workstation, iPM/PAS and data and reporting systems.”
Te Whata Ora Waikato serves a population of more than 425,000, covering an area of more than 21,000 square kilometres.
Provation iPro AIMS went live at the Royal Adelaide Hospital in 2017 followed by the implementation of additional modules including iPro APM and PACU in mid-2018. The iPro PAT module went live at The Royal Adelaide Hospital in 2020, signalling the introduction of the full perioperative information management system.
“We are both proud and excited to have completed our first major installation in New Zealand and we trust that this will open new doors for us to leverage this, and other proven, world-class solutions in this country where we now have runs on the board,” added Mr. Haebich.
“We have benefitted from our collaboration with Te Whatu Ora and I applaud the team for putting people and whānau at the heart of its digital health journey.”
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SINGAPORE – June 2023 – Altera Digital Health, formerly the Allscripts Hospitals and Large Physician Practices business segment and a global leader in healthcare IT, has announced that its Sunrise™ Oncology solution has gone live at National Cancer Centre Singapore (NCCS), a specialty centre under SingHealth, Singapore’s largest public healthcare group.
SingHealth, supported by the national HealthTech agency Integrated Health Information Systems (IHiS), will be using Sunrise Oncology to elevate its multi-disciplinary and integrated care approach for more than 30,000 healthcare professionals in its network of acute hospitals, national specialty centres, community hospitals and polyclinics, which serve almost half of Singapore’s healthcare needs.
As part of NCCS’ commitment to deliver high quality cancer care to patients in Singapore and the region, SingHealth started working on an extended e-chemotherapy project that encompasses the delivery of Sunrise Oncology as one component.
Sunrise Oncology is an oncology-specific EMR solution that provides clinicians the tools they need to support the complexities of cancer care. It provides decision support at the point of clinical prescribing and evidence-based treatment regimens with real-time analysis of efficacy, toxicities and outcomes.
The intention is to create a paperless electronic oncology workflow by consolidating the workflow for medical oncology across multiple SingHealth institutions, including NCCS, Singapore General Hospital (SGH), KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital, and satellite and outpatient cancer treatment centres at Sengkang General Hospital and Changi General Hospital. This brings together existing paper and electronic workflows into Sunrise to standardise and enhance the integration with patients’ electronic medical records. For example, a patient may receive their diagnosis and undergo their initial treatment at NCCS (or even as an inpatient at SGH), but subsequently choose to receive the remaining cancer treatment in a satellite centre closer to where they live for greater convenience. With Sunrise Oncology, doctors, nurses and pharmacists from across SingHealth institutions will have visibility of key patient information, including their prior treatment and any important notes (such as any adverse drug reactions).
“The implementation of Sunrise Oncology across SingHealth institutions provides a cluster-wide integrated oncology solution, which enables clinicians to access patient data more efficiently, improves patient safety and ensures seamless continuity of care for the patient,” said Associate Professor Lita Chew, Group Director, Allied Health, SingHealth and Head of Pharmacy Department, NCCS.
To meet growing healthcare needs, the new 24-storey NCCS building was officially opened in 2023 with increased capacity and expanded facilities dedicated to cancer care, rehabilitation, research and education.
As part of this expansion, Sunrise Oncology has been implemented in phases to standardise oncology workflows and streamline processes across all SingHealth institutions. This will support workflows for both solid tumours and blood cancers across oncology and haematology services — across institutions — and provide seamless integration with other Sunrise modules.
Todd Haebich, Executive Vice President, APAC of Altera Digital Health congratulated SingHealth on the Sunrise Oncology go-live at NCCS.
“Altera Digital Health is committed to driving a new era of healthcare powered by the Platform of Health; one with greater interoperability and lessened information burden that drives value-based care for improved health outcomes,” Haebich said “The flexibility of the Sunrise solution has enabled SingHealth to develop and build on the platform to deploy customised tools alongside a wide range of oncology protocol regimes. This ensures high-quality and standardised care, where patients can seamlessly move from inpatient care to outpatient care and vice versa. The Sunrise platform will support SingHealth in strengthening its care management processes and advancing its continued delivery of reliable, quality healthcare to Singaporeans.”
Anna Grammare, General Manager of Altera Digital Health Singapore and Philippines, added, “This has been a momentous and exciting 18 months for Altera in Singapore. We are proud to be supporting SingHealth in the rollout of Sunrise Oncology across the various institutions despite the massive impact of COVID-19 and other health system pressures. SingHealth and Altera Digital Health teams have worked closely to develop a solution that meets requirements across the different settings – inpatient, outpatient and in the future, paediatrics. The final solution is fit for purpose and integrates seamlessly into current workflows and into the Sunrise ecosystem at SingHealth.”
“As the technology agency for Singapore’s public healthcare sector, we strive to transform healthcare and improve the lives of patients through harnessing technology,” said Hooi Ka Mei, Director, Delivery Ops Management & Planning of Integrated Health Information Systems (IHiS). “We are proud to have been a part of this transformative journey for SingHealth, ensuring a seamless transition from its legacy system to Sunrise Oncology. We are confident that the new workflow and solution will pave the way for better oncology care for patients.”
Amidst the changing needs in the healthcare industry, Altera Digital Health is focused on delivering innovation across the entire care continuum and strengthening optimisation for hospital systems, creating long-term interoperability and changing how healthcare can be delivered.
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About Altera Digital Health
A global healthcare IT leader, Altera Digital Health develops and elevates technology to connect and inspire healthier communities. Our platform approach to our solutions is changing the way healthcare is delivered. By keeping the human user at the center of our design methodology, we are supporting caregivers and helping patients meet and exceed their wellness goals. Together, with our clients, we’re driving a new era of healthcare. To learn more, visit www.alterahealth.com
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About SingHealth
SingHealth, Singapore’s largest public healthcare cluster, is committed to providing affordable, accessible and quality healthcare to patients. With a network of acute hospitals, national specialty centres, polyclinics and community hospitals offering over 40 clinical specialties, it delivers comprehensive, multi-disciplinary and integrated care. Beyond hospital walls, SingHealth partners community care providers to enable the population to keep well, get well and live well. As part of the SingHealth Duke-NUS Academic Medical Centre, SingHealth also focuses on advancing education and research to continuously improve care outcomes for patients. For more information, please visit: www.singhealth.com.sg
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25 May 2023 – Altera Digital Health’s digital medical record, Altera Opal, has gone live at the Rockingham General Hospital, Murray District Hospital and nearby community health centres in Mandurah and Kwinana. All sites now have read/write access to the State-Wide Digital Medical Record powered by Altera Opal.
Rockingham General Hospital is approximately 50 kilometres south of Perth and has an emergency department and operating theatres, as well as medical, surgical and paediatric wards. Murray District Hospital is much smaller, offering inpatient medical services and palliative care to the people of Pinjarra and surrounding areas. The implementation of Altera Opal at these sites signals their transition from paper to digital medical records.
Altera Opal was originally known as BOSSnet, and as a digital medical record, is operational in more than 100 sites in Australia, whilst it is also deployed as a document management solution as part of the Sunrise™ Platform of Health in Australia and the United Kingdom. It is also currently being deployed in the US, Canada, Singapore and the Philippines. All development related to Altera Opal is managed and delivered by a dedicated team in Australia.
Todd Haebich, Executive Vice President APAC for Altera Digital Health, said that Altera Opal continues to prove its worth for organisations looking to transition from paper to digital medical records.
“Altera Opal has been particularly effective in Western Australia, where it has enabled many health sites to embark on their digital journeys, and in doing so, establish an ever-growing community of health that clinicians can leverage to deliver even better healthcare,” explained Mr. Haebich.
He continued, “Through its Scanning and Document Management capabilities, it helps health sites effectively and affordably customise their deployment strategies to suit budget and healthcare needs, delivering clever workflows that support effective health information management and clinical coding. Altera Opal can also seamlessly interface with third-party software.”
Jonathan Smith, Chief Information Officer of Health Support Services (HSS), a WA Government agency supporting the WA public health system, said:
“Over the past year, HSS has been working in collaboration with the Department of Health, Health Service Providers and Altera to implement the Digital Medical Record (DMR) solution at a number of new sites across the state. Implementation of the DMR requires a system-wide collaboration and is a precursor step toward implementing an integrated Electronic Medical Record (EMR), which will further increase the electronic capturing of information at the point of care, reducing paper forms to a minimum. HSS acknowledges the dedication and hard work of the project teams and users involved in the deployment of the DMR at the new sites for their efforts in enabling a successful implementation.”
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About Altera Digital Health
A global healthcare IT leader, Altera Digital Health develops and elevates technology to connect and inspire healthier communities. Our platform approach to our solutions is changing the way healthcare is delivered. By keeping the human user at the center of our design methodology, we are supporting caregivers and helping patients meet and exceed their wellness goals. Together, with our clients, we’re driving a new era of healthcare. To learn more, visit au.alterahealth.com.
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1 May 2023 – Altera Digital Health has promoted its Australia and New Zealand head Todd Haebich to Executive Vice President APAC following a sustained period of significant growth for the company. Mr. Haebich’s responsibilities now include Southeast Asia, a market he has extensive experience in, where he will be supported by Anna Grammare, General Manager, Singapore and Philippines.
Todd Haebich joined Altera Digital Health, then Allscripts, in 2015 as an Associate VP Strategic Accounts Australia and New Zealand before being promoted to General Manager in 2018. Since then, he has steered the company through the steady expansion of key client SA Health’s ambitious state-wide electronic medical record across the length and breadth of South Australia. SA Health is now one of Altera Digital Health’s largest global Sunrise™ clients using prime solutions including Sunrise PAS (Registration, Scheduling, SFM), Sunrise EMR, Patient Flow and Altera Opal. Last month, a budget of $31.1 million was confirmed by the South Australian government for the regional rollout of Sunrise which is expected to be completed by late 2024. SA Health are also implementing a state-wide Enterprise Chemotherapy Prescribing System with Altera Digital Health.
Mr. Haebich has also led Altera Digital Health through the opportunity. planning and delivery of a contemporary cloud-based EMR solution to the Gippsland Health Alliance beginning in late 2017 and concluding with the announcement of third and final phase going live in December last year. Expansion to New Zealand came in 2022 when Altera Digital Health announced it had won a contract to deliver the award-winning Provation® iPro anaesthesia solutions at the Waikato and Thames hospitals with the go-live expected in the first half of this year.
More recently, Altera Digital Health was awarded the contract to implement a health information exchange (HIE) for the Victoria Department of Health’s pathology reform program.
Marcus Perez, President of Altera Digital Health said that Mr. Haebich’s promotion was richly deserved given his accomplishments in a challenging and ever-evolving market:
“Under Todd’s leadership, Australia and New Zealand have become key geographies for Altera in a relatively short space of time, and he has demonstrated unequivocally that we can compete very confidently with other global brands that have had a much longer presence in-country.”
Mr. Haebich is well placed to deliver on his new role in the Southeast Asia market having lived and worked in Singapore from 2008 to 2014 where he held senior positions with leading healthcare IT companies including Wolters Kluwer and Carestream Health.
“I am delighted and honoured to be leading Altera Digital Health in the Southeast Asia Market where I intend to build on all of the good work that has already been delivered to establish Altera Digital Health as a market leader,” said Mr. Haebich.
“I am particularly grateful to my team here in Australia for their tremendous support and dedication, without which Altera Digital Health would not have established the presence it now has,” added Mr. Haebich.
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About Altera Digital Health
Altera Digital Health believes that healthcare should be easier to access, easier to understand and easier to navigate. Whether providing care or receiving it, people deserve a higher-level experience that fits and improves their everyday lives. Instead of just talking about bold moves that will catapult healthcare to a higher place, Altera sees the summit, designs digital health services to get there, and guides those we partner with all along the way. We’re bringing next-level healthcare within reach. To learn more, visit www.alterahealth.com
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