17 Dec 2022 – The third phase of Gippsland Health Alliance’s (GHA) electronic medical record (EMR) rollout has gone live with Altera’s Sunrise™ EMR clinical suite now in full application across GHA’s major regional and subregional health services encompassing Latrobe Regional Hospital, Central Gippsland Health, Bairnsdale Regional Health Service (servicing east Gippsland), West Gippsland Healthcare Group and Bass Coast Health. The system is Australia’s largest EMR deployment on Microsoft Azure and incorporates 600 beds across five health services in total.

Altera Digital Health won the competitive tender to deliver an EMR solution to the GHA in late 2017 and Latrobe Regional Hospital was selected as the first site in the Alliance to implement the Sunrise EMR clinical suite. Phase 3 of the EMR rollout commenced in January 2021 with the Emergency Department of Central Gippsland Health, Bairnsdale Regional Health Service, West Gippsland Healthcare Group and Bass Coast Health activating Sunrise Emergency Care after a six-month implementation period, which was followed by the extension of the Sunrise Acute Care module (within the Altera Sunrise EMR Platform of Health) having been successfully extended across the GHA footprint.

Todd Haebich, General Manager of Altera Digital Health Australia and New Zealand, said that GHA deserves great credit for its vision and achievement, especially considering the complexities and challenges brought about by COVID-19.

“GHA has firmly established itself as one of the pioneers of digital health in Australia and we are enthusiastic about our partnership rolling out Sunrise™ across a very sizeable geography and in four hospitals simultaneously,” explained Mr. Haebich.

“The system enables the scaling up of infrastructure across Gippsland as a cloud-based service, and this benefit was realised during the COVID-19 pandemic when physical infrastructure services were so heavily impacted,” Mr. Haebich added.

Adrian Shearer, Chief Information Officer of GHA, said that the rollout of Sunrise™ across Gippsland establishes the groundwork for the further growth and development of digital health interventions in the region.

“The public health industry is rapidly evolving and technological developments are improving patient outcomes at a prolific rate,” explained Mr. Shearer.

“Our region-wide cloud-based platform enables us to introduce best-of-breed health-tech solutions to what is essentially a large regional community and also to attract the best administrative talent because the system can be accessed remotely.”

Dr Simon Kos, Health Industry Executive, Microsoft Australia said that GHA, like all other health services, requires a reliable, fast, flexible and resilient EMR that supports patient outcomes and operational efficiency.

“Scalability is evident in GHA’s rapid deployment across multiple facilities, and improved security of sensitive health information is paramount. A cloud deployment model is the engine enabling digital transformation and GHA has made history in what it has achieved in partnership with Microsoft and Altera.”

GHA is a consortium of publicly funded health services in the Gippsland region of Victoria, east of Melbourne, covering some 41,556 square kilometres (16,045 sq mi).

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