16 Jan 2023 – Altera Digital Health’s Sunrise™ EMR and PAS has gone live at the Lyell McEwin Hospital of the Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN), representing another milestone development in Altera’s (formerly Allscripts) partnership with SA Health to implement a single integrated PAS and EMR across the state of South Australia.

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. It is affiliated with the University of Adelaide and the University of South Australia. The hospital is a major teaching institution for healthcare professionals that offers emergency, complex and multi-day surgery, as well as day surgery and other procedures. In addition to LMH, the full clinical functionality of the Sunrise™ EMR and PAS is now also in use at the maternity outpatients at Modbury Hospital, GP Plus Elizabeth, GP Plus Super Clinic Gilles Plains, Salisbury Primary Healthcare Services, Child Protection Services and Outpatients, Virtual Typing Pool and Muna Paiendi (Aboriginal health).

In October 2022, the Sunrise PAS went live with key clinical functionality in the emergency departments at LMH and Modbury Hospital. It is expected that the Sunrise EMR and PAS will go live at the inpatient and outpatient sites of the Modbury Hospital early next this year, as well as achieve full clinical activation at the Women’s and Children’s Hospital, the last of Adelaide’s metropolitan hospitals that will go fully live with Sunrise, later in the first quarter 2023.

Wendy Sutton, EMR Program Operations Director, SA Health, said that Altera Digital Health has an excellent track record delivering health information solutions for hospitals around the world, including the Asia Pacific region.

“Our partnership with the company commenced about 10 years ago. Since then, our teams are working closely to deliver an integrated, state-wide electronic medical record and patient administration system—Sunrise EMR and PAS—across South Australia,” Sutton said.

“Sunrise EMR and PAS from Altera helps us improve clinical safety and efficiency by providing a single patient record across all of our facilities, as well as integrating all administrative, financial and clinical information for a standardised approach to care across all our health services. It is not just implementing the existing solutions—it is customising them for the purposes of SA Health. That’s where the collaboration with Altera team is critical—working closely together on tailoring and optimising the solutions to support our administrative staff and clinicians at the South Australian Hospitals more efficiently.

“The successful implementation of the full clinical functionality at the Lyell McEwin Hospital, Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN) is an excellent outcome of the symbiotic collaborative work between our teams at SA Health, NALHN and Altera Digital Health.”

Sutton added, “One of the key achievements in this activation was the introduction of the single medical record number (MRN) across the network to streamline patient administrative management and clinical care.”

Altera Digital Health Australia and New Zealand General Manager Todd Haebich congratulated SA Health on the ‘Lyell Mac’ go-live.

“These are challenging times in healthcare across Australia, but SA Health has maintained a focus and commitment to the rollout of its integrated EMR and PAS despite the massive impact of COVID-19 and other health system pressures,” Haebich said.

“This has been a momentous and exciting 18 months for Altera in South Australia, with Sunrise extending its footprint to incorporate the Flinders Medical Centre and the Lyell McEwin Hospital with full clinical activation at the Modbury and Women’s and Children’s hospitals expected in a matter of months,” Haebich added.

This year has also seen the further rollout of the Sunrise Document Management (SDM) solution, powered by Altera Opal, as well as the Sunrise Record Tracking solution, to the remaining sites using Sunrise following the initial implementation at the Royal Adelaide Hospital and Mt Gambier Regional Hospital.

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