• Vitro Software - A Digital Medical Record for Large & Small Hospitals - Enabling Intelligent Digital Transformation
    A Digital Medical Record with a difference...

    ■ Ease of use, clinician designed, minimal training
    ■ Rapid deployment, faster return on your investment
    ■ Digitise complex processes to create hospital efficiencies
    ■ Highly interoperable with existing solutions in use
    ■ Scalable to suit all organisations sizes and budgets
    ■ You own the data. Enable analytics through open access
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  • We welcome our newest client Aurora Healthcare to Vitro Software

    Australia's second-largest private mental health and rehabilitation care provider

  • The intuitive clinical data management solution for hospitals

    The simplicity of paper. The power of technology.

  • Manage your Hospitals patient data using Vitro's clinician designed system

    Improving Healthcare outcomes with user focused digital transformation

Benefit from a clinician designed Digital Medical Record to meet your hospital's unique needs

Manage patients clinical data digitally and integrate with your healthcare or hospitals existing systems to have a 360-degree patient view.

Efficiently manage patient's clinical data to impro+ve outcomes, save time and make better decisions.

Benefit from a clinician designed digital medical record that inspires user adoption, retains your existing processes & workflows, increases patient safety and reduces costs.

IMPROVING HEALTHCARE OUTCOMES USING INTELLIGENT DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION
We believe that technology is central to helping end users work more efficiently, providing better services and outcomes to patients, while also reducing costs.

 

  • St George's Hospital, New Zealand "Clinicians can now access patient information on the move, we have seen a positive impact on patient discharge times"
  • A Calvary Hospital, Australia "There has been a 75% saving in the costs associated with becoming paperless and these costs are continually decreasing"
  • BreastScreen Victoria, Australia "The new digital whiteboard has improved patient flow, providing for a better experience for both patients and staff"
  • LauraLynn Children's Hospice, Ireland "The time taken to locate historical data within the patient record has been reduced by 66%"

Vitro's Clinician Designed Digital Medical Record for Hospitals



CASE STUDIES / TESTIMONIALS

Find out how Vitro has benefited some of our clients


Vitro Software - A Digital Medical Record platform for Bendigo Health (Hospital)
 

A DIGITAL MEDICAL RECORD FOR BENDIGO HEALTH

A 660 bed hospital in Victoria, Australia

Vitro as part of the IC3 solution, delivering a Digital Medical Record for the new Bendigo Hospital. We provide a platform to capture, display and manage clinical data, to incorporate scanned documents (hybrid medical records) and to integrate clinical data from external sources providing a system that will manage all aspects of a patient’s medical journey.

Vitro Software - Electronic Medical Records for LauraLynn hospice
 

ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORDS FOR LAURALYNN

Irelands only hospice for children with life-limiting conditions.

"Vitro has allowed us to reduce patient admission time by up to 16%. For patient re-admission, the time saving has been even greater, at up to 22% and only a couple of months later this has now been reduced to 50%. This time saving has a major benefit to our children, their parents and guardians and their care givers. Stress, administrative burden and clinical risk have all been impacted and reduced". Kerry McLaverty, Clinical Services Manager, LauraLynn, Ireland Children’s Hospice

Vitro Software - Electronic Records for detention - Serco
 

ELECTRONIC CASE MANAGEMENT FOR SERCO

11 onshore immigration detention facilities, Australia.

A customised electronic case management system for the immigration detention facilities managed by Serco in Australia. Vitro Case Management is an electronic solution, which supports Serco in their management of detainees through the life cycle of their stay. Vitro enables Serco to provide a greater continuity of care to detainees by having their complete case history available electronically, as well as management tools accessible through Vitro in a secure and protected way.

Vitro Software - Electronic Medical Records for charities, Operation Smile
 

ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORDS FOR OPERATION SMILE

Global medical charity providing hundreds of thousands of free surgeries.

'A paper medical record is good because it allows you to look after that one patient but imagine having an EMR then you are able to understand what’s happening with hundreds or thousands of patients. Vitro has unleashed this amazing opportunity to understand our patients." - Ruben Ayala, M.D. Senior Vice President Medical Affairs of Operation Smile

Vitro Software - Electronic Medical Records for hospitals, Calvary Health Care
 

CLINICAL DATA MANAGEMENT FOR CALVARY HEALTH CARE

A group of 15 public and private hospitals, Australia

"Given the time if you talk about 6 months from ‘woe’ to ‘go’ in terms of getting to the point of implementation it was amazing and I’m not aware of any other site or service that has introduced any form of electronic record that have been able to achieve that." Shannon Thompson - Director of Clinical Services





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Collaboration in Healthcare - Everyone Matters



"Neil Jordan, Worldwide General Manager of the Health Industry for Microsoft. Doctors, specialists and other healthcare professionals need to be able to share the most up-to-date information, whether they are in a hospital or clinic, treating a patient, travelling between facilities or teleworking. They need communication and collaboration tools that help them connect with each other and with critical information to improve their performance and reduce errors."


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“make them use it” is not a valid EMR adoption strategy



"Of course we are all aware that a traditional EMR rollout is a huge financial commitment (thus raising the financial risk considerably, in addition to the operational risk of upending the healthcare organisation for a minimum of two years while the project is implemented). In many cases, those risks are well flagged and whilst typically underestimated, they have at least been given strong consideration. However the biggest risk to such a project is usually one that doesn’t receive much attention – user adoption"


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EMR Implementation – Big Bang or Phased Approach?



"One question that we have come across with clients time and time again is “How should we implement an EMR?” This usually refers to whether a hospital should take a Big Bang approach to the implementation of Electronic Medical Records or phase it in over time. One of the largest concerns with hospital management during the implementation of an EMR are..."


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eHealth Procurement & Implementation - A nurses perspective

eHealth Procurement & Implementation - A nurses perspective

Sinead Kane - Project Leader, Sláinte Healthcare

Author: Guest Contributors/Tuesday, October 27, 2015/Categories: Insights

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Electronic Health Record (EHR) has been identified as the cornerstone of the eHealth strategy for many countries including Ireland. As we move closer to the reality of a national EHR, the role of the nurse in its design needs to be explored. 
  

While nurses are often involved during testing and as super users for training and support, this is generally too late to have any meaningful input into the usability or content of the selected system. There is great potential for EMRs to streamline workflows, reduce errors, duplication and of course reduce time spent on administration. However to realise these benefits the end user needs to have more involvement at the earlier stages of IT projects, in particular with system procurement and design.

A survey completed for the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) in the UK found that technology, if not used properly can actually increase the workload of nursing staff and over two-thirds of respondents said that the use of Information Technology has increased the amount of time they spend on paperwork and administration (1). This is not good news for an already overstretched health system where on a recent work-to-rule in a Dublin hospital, nurses withdrew from admin work to concentrate on direct patient care.  

For a system to be effective, user friendly and adapt to the workflow of the end user, it seems obvious to include their input at the early stages. Nurses represent the largest group of front line staff that will use EMRs, however, 98% of nurses surveyed in US hospitals agree that they have never been included in hospital technology decision or design. Only 15% of those surveyed thought that their IT department were receptive to nurses’ suggestions in improving electronic documentation (2). 

In a hospital setting alone there are paediatric, oncology, anaesthetic, critical care and cardiology nurses among many others. Each speciality has its own form of data collection and flow of information. Getting an insight into all these areas is key to achieving an EMR that is directed towards the complex care administered within a hospital setting. If the burden of administration is to be reduced, those experiencing this burden first hand need to have a say in how this can be achieved. Before embarking on the EMR journey.

  • Include nurses (and other end-users) from day one when deciding which EMR to choose  
  • Document clinical workflows
  • Assess how processes can be improved.
  • Look at duplication of information and how information can be shared through integration 
  • Identify data which is required for quality improvement initiatives/clinical audits. The ability to retrieve meaningful data is essential in monitoring and improving care. 

Time and effort at this stage of the project will help training and go-live run more smoothly. It will lead to a more positive user experience, increased clinical adoption and safer patient care. With the correct approach and utilisation of the clinical expertise available, an EMR implementation that adequately meets the needs of all end users can become a reality.

Sinéad Kane - Project Leader at Sláinte Healthcare

Sinéad has over 20 years nursing experience in both public and private hospitals and has worked in Ireland, Australia and the UK. She has received a BSc & Higher diploma in Nursing and a MSc in Health Informatics. As Project Leader for Sláinte Healthcare she co-ordinates the roll-out and manages project deliverables, of the eHealth software Vitro and Claimsure to hospitals and healthcare organisations.

(1)  https://www.rcn.org.uk/newsevents/press_releases/uk/cries_unheard_-_nurses_still_told_not_to_raise_concerns
(2) http://blackbookmarketresearch.newswire.com/press-release/hospital-nurses-forced-to-develop-creative-workarounds-to-deal
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