ANNUAL REVIEW master Final3a - St Vincent's University Hospital

St. Vincent’s Healthcare Group Limited - Annual Review 2007
Department - ICT
The Siemens Picture Archiving and Communications system and a Radiology Information system (PACS/RIS)
was extended to St. Michaels Hospital. In essence this system provides a film-less radiology solution.
We worked with Media One, a subsidiary of Eircom, to develop a new SVUH and Group Website. Media One
has also been selected to create a new Group Intranet which is due to be completed in June 2008.
We completed a review and significant upgrade of the Emergency Department and Social Work systems, the
migration of the Tomcat Cardiology system and the development in-house of a number of database systems:
• Accreditation database
• Neurology referral form
• Medication incident reporting
• Nurse Bank System
In cooperation with the EmotionMedia group we have developed a patient information channel on which we
can transmit presentations and educational videos via the hospitals television network
In progress since 2007
DI DIVER - We are currently implementing a new Management Information System (MIS) called Health Diver.
The system initially covers the Patient Administration System (inpatient, outpatients and waiting list),
Emergency Department, HIPE and Social Work systems. While this data-mining tool provides comprehensive
reports and adhoc queries internally and externally, one of its main advantages is its portal and dashboard
capability. We are using this to deliver the SVUH Key Performance Indicator dashboard via the Intranet and
Email.
In early 2008 we will go live with our Endorad Endoscopy system. This not only digitally captures and stores
endoscopy studies but also has a web client for image distribution and tracks the patient journey from
scheduling to reporting.
We will also complete the implementation of an integrated ICU Clinical Management system.
Digital Dictation - we procured the TA+ application from DictateIT/CBay Systems this year to replace our
analogue dictation system. This system is fully integrated to our Patient administration system and can
therefore associate voice files with the patient record. It offers greater flexibility in terms of recording and
accessing dictated records as well as higher quality digital functionality.
We have developed a menuing facility add on to the Catering System in support of an initiative stemming
from a recent patient satisfaction survey
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