Capstone Project: Software and Hardware Recommendation for Healthcare

This capstone project provides a software and hardware recommendation for One Rehabilitation Service, an allied health provider, to enhance data storage security and improve working efficiency. The project evaluates various software options, including Nookal, Best Practice, Emerging, MedTech, Communicare, e-Medical Practice, Clarity, Zedmed, MMEX, and Medical Director, based on business requirements such as e-referrals, discharge summaries, and shared health summaries. MedTech is recommended for its flexibility, cost-effectiveness, and compliance with healthcare standards like HIPAA. Microsoft 365 is suggested for intranet services, offering a complete package of Microsoft essentials. The implementation plan includes purchasing and installing the software, providing staff training, and utilizing new software to manage client data. The expected benefits include enhanced client satisfaction, improved access to health information, and streamlined workflows, ultimately supporting better decision-making functions within the organization. The document also provides a comparison matrix and references supporting the recommendations.

Capstone Professional
Project

Introduction
• Recommendation for One Rehabilitation
Service is provided through this presentation
• The service industry treats people suffering
from acquired brain injury
• The application of Nookal can offer pratise
management software for clinicals
• They also use T-Sheets to track staffs and
improve staff safety

Explanation of business
requirements
• E-referrals: Transmission feature of patient data
• Discharge summaries: Collections information
of patients such as stay of patient, issues and
process
• Event summaries: Information of significant
event that lead to the ongoing care of the
patients
• Shared health summary: Consists of health
information of patient in the past

Contd..
• Assigned registration: Used by patients to
register themselves in My Health record
• My health record download: Health
information of patients are distributed across
hospitals, imaging centers and specialists
• Health care identifiers: It helps in finding
health care organisations. It includes HPI-I,
HPI-O and IHI

Software shortlist
• Nine software’s from the register summary
can be used that are established by the
Government of Australia
• Every software need to register with
Healthcare Identifier
• Shortlisted software includes

Contd..
• Best practice
• Communicare
• Emerging
• Medical Director
• MMEx
• Zedmed
• Clarity
• MedTech
• eMedical Practice

Description of Nookal
• It is a recent software developed for business with
clients
• It helps to manage appointments, conduct
meetings, manage and control staff activities,
generate client invoice and make automatic
booking
• The cost of the software is about $255 along with
GST per month
• Individual users can use it for $17.00 per month

Description of Best Practice Software
• Provides software for general
practitioners, individual clinicals and
allied health professionals in both New
Zealand and Australia
• The four categories include: BP Premier,
BP VIP. Net, BP Allied and BP Titanium

Description of Emerging
system
• It provides emerging health system software
• It is a single system with a single sign
• It collects information of patients and include
the medical history of the patients
• It deals with possible variants and combines
the requirements mentioned by clients
• Its implementation is not cost effective

Description of MedTech
• Helps in compiling the requirements of One
Rehabilitation Service
• IT consists of Client server and Cloud based
• The features of client server includes
customisable workflow, have a separate cloud
based data storage, regulatory compliance and
online appointment booking
• Cloud based is another alernative to the MedTech
and helps in providing support of backup data

Description of MedTech Cloud
• Performs remote service instead of web cost
server
• It can be flexible with the expansion of the
organisation
• Provides usage cost for the employees
• Consist of cloud data storage and is considered
as a complete package for allied health
organisations

Description of Communicare
• Used to identify and mitigate risks of loosing patient
information
• It complies with National eHealth Standards such as
ADHA, CCA compliance, CDA discharge summaries,
NPDR
• It provides a comprehensive patient record, multiple
care plans, pathology, radiology, medication
management
• It also has features such as Electronic billing, online
appointments, transport modules

Description of e-Medical practice
software
• Helps to manage and schedule appointments
• Indentifies and eliminates any inefficiency in the
office
• Core functions include forming patient history,
chart summary, vital signs and order entry
• The cost of the software ranges from $299-$499
per month
• The drawback is that this software cannot be used
with cloud

Description of Clarity
• It is highly flexible and is cloud enabled
• It has real time accessibility that consists of
patient information and endless time of care
• The implementation of the software is
complicated as it is vast and highly cost
effective
• At the same time it fails to meet business
requirements such as e-Refferals

Description of ZedMed
• The functions of ZedMed includes providing
appointment, booking, billing and analysing
the attendance of patients
• It provides data service and customer service
along with providing security of the data
• Its own billing system has the software
integrated with MYOB

Description of MMEX
• It helps to remain connected with medical
communities and is delivered by ISA health care
• It maintains records that provides declaration
and access patients records along with collective
and collaborative MMEX module
• It key features include Clinical EMR, practice
management, secure messaging and specialty
modules

Description of Medical director
• Leading medical software in Australia
• Helps in empowering patients and promote
better health outcomes
• It provides a range of software solutions like
Helix, Clinical, Bluechip Pracsoft and AusDi
• The customer service is unsatisfactory of the
software

Intranet research
• Currently One Rehabilitation service uses
Dropbox but its is recommended that it uses
Microsoft 365
• It compiles the essential software required for
business
• Other software includes share point, share
point server, share point standard, share point
online

Matrix

Comparison between best
software
• Two best software includes MedTech and
Communicare
• Both software meet all the requirements of a
health care sector
• MedTech doesnot charge for setting up the server
• The one time cost of MedTech is $5060 while for
Communicare it is $113,000
• MedTech is flexible whereas Communicare cannot
be updated once installed

Final recommendation
• MedTech is recommended over Communicare
for client data storage
• MedTech meets all the business requirements
and is flexible and easy to install
• MedTech can save time and cost as it helps in
getting server based updates

Contd..
• For intranet it is recommended to use
Microsoft 365 business as it offers a complete
package of Microsoft essentials

Contd..
• For hardware it is recommended to use laptop
and desktop based Windows operating system

Expected benefits
• Enhance client satisfaction
• Support current and future business
requirements
• Gain access to key health information
• Ease the work load
• Enhance cloud based storage space
• Consist more client data
• Provides information security

Implementation
• Purchasing the software and installing it in the
business
• The hardware can provide system requirements
for practise management and software includes
MedTech Cloud
• Training is required to be provided to the staffs
• New software can be used to manage new client
and Nookal to assist with guiding old clients

Conclusion
• MedTech is a final solution that is
recommended for One Rehabilitation Service
• It provides better data security along with
compliance with HIPAA and Microsoft 365
• It can help to support better decision making
functions

Reference
• Doll, J.A., Hellkamp, A., Ho, P.M., Kontos, M.C.,
Whooley, M.A., Peterson, E.D. and Wang, T.Y., 2015.
Participation in cardiac rehabilitation programs among
older patients after acute myocardial infarction. JAMA
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• Onerehabilitationservice.com.au. (2018). One
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