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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