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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