A Word from the Editor In this issue Hello Everyone, Happy New Year! I hope you all had a PHS PowerHealth partners with OCSHI Solutions and Services good break over the holidays. Corporate to bring Healthcare Costing solution to GCC 2 We had an exciting start to 2015 with the PowerHealth proudly sponsors Western Health Fundraising 2 ATP tennis sponsorship. The week-long The new PowerHealth Solutions Mobile-Friendly Website 2 tournament faced extremely hot weather and PowerHealth sponsors ATP International Tennis Tournament 5 rain but the day of the finals was perfect and sunny. We formed another partnership in the Gulf 2015 Registrations Now Open 3 Cooperation Council (GCC) with OCSHI Conference Efficiency and Quality Theme 3 Solutions and Services, bringing our number of partners in the Middle East to three. Keynote Speakers 3 We have been working hard planning for Face-to-Face Networking 4 our 2015 Networking & Training Conference, Hands-On Training 4 with registrations opened last week. This is Short Consults 4 great value for money at $200pp (get in early) PPM Site Visit - St Andrew’s Hospital 4 for an agenda packed conference with interesting industry presentations, Datix Site Visit - Women’s and Children’s Hospital 5 networking, training and site visits. Networking Dinner – Adelaide Oval 5 Everyone is invited to attend, and we look Call for Papers 5 forward to seeing you at this event. Important Dates 5 Conference Training: Introduction to New Features 4 Conference Training: Theen Moy Implementing a new feeder system and billing area 4 Editor Conference Training: Efficient reporting in Datix Version 14 Methods for achieving and validating data quality 4 Getting to know Barry Smith 6 Staff & Community Getting to know Paul Woodward 6 Click or scan to read our newsletters online Click or scan to follow us www.powerhealthsolutions.com 1 © 2015 PowerHealth Solutions PowerHealth partners with OCSHI PowerHealth proudly sponsors Solutions & Services to bring Western Health Fundraising Healthcare Costing solution to GCC PowerHealth Solutions was proud to be a corporate sponsor for the Western Health Community Race Day held at the Flemington Racecourse on Saturday 13th December 2014. Australian healthcare software vendor PowerHealth Solutions has The Western Health Community Race Day is the Melbourne partnered with healthcare technology company OCSHI Solutions and metropolitan public health service’s flagship fundraising event and 2014 Services to bring the PowerPerformance Manager (PPM) healthcare costing marks the ninth year of this race. system to the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region. The event is run by the Western Health Foundation to raise funds for 1 Healthcare spending in the GCC region is increasing annually due to enhancing the healthcare in Melbourne’s west through the purchase of 2 population growth and governmental efforts to achieve high quality of care . equipment, funding of medical research, and provision of scholarships for To control rising costs, the need to more accurately cost information is staff. The proceeds from this year’s event will go towards the Sunshine Kids crucial to identifying high cost areas and building improvement strategies. Appeal Program. PowerPerformance Manager (PPM) is the most popular activity based PowerHealth Solutions has a close working relationship with Western costing solution in Australia, with public and private hospital clients as well Health through the implementation of their PowerPerformance Manager as State Health Departments and Area Health Services. (PPM) system for monitoring and reporting on healthcare costing and OCSHI Solutions and Services is a leading healthcare IT system activity based funding. integrator providing innovative solutions to the GCC customers. PowerHealth Solutions has a strong social awareness policy and fosters “Extending PowerPerformance Manager system to the region is inline a company culture that gives back to the community by routinely supporting with our strategy to deliver state of the art solutions to our customers, a wide range of charitable endeavours. The company is very pleased to which will enable them to provide higher quality of care while controlling support the Western Health Foundation’s work in enhancing public costs," said OCSHI Solutions and Services CEO Mutaz Ali. healthcare. PowerHealth Solutions CEO Patrick Power said, “We are delighted to have OCSHI Solutions and Services as a GCC Partner for PPM. Their focus and dedication to healthcare IT is unique and will add great value in our ability to successfully deliver PPM to GCC customers.” The new PowerHealth Solutions Mobile-Friendly Website 1 “Middle East, Africa lead rising global health care costs for 2014: Survey” by Jerry Geisel, Business Insurance, 16 May 2014. 2 Trend #4 in “5 Big Financial Trends for the Global Healthcare Market” by Laura Miller, Becker’s SPINE REVIEW, 29 May 2014. About OCSHI Solutions and Services Founded in 2003 in the United Arab Emirates, OCSHI Solutions and Services was the first healthcare informatics company to start operating out of Dubai Internet City. OCSHI Solutions & Services are pioneers of information technology in the Healthcare arena offering a host of innovative Healthcare IT solutions and services that effectively address the business needs of clients today and equip their business to compete successfully in the market. The company offers best-of-breed Healthcare IT products and cutting edge technologies to help clients address critical business imperatives and manage the business and technology complexities of today's roller coaster economy. The company focuses on delivering a wide range of solutions to a Did you notice our new online look? If you have been following us on multitude of international healthcare sectors, including HIS, PACS, ER Twitter, Linked In or Facebook, you would also have seen the launch Solutions, Medical Transcription, Revenue Cycle Management solutions, announcements for our new website a fortnight ago. Integration of Healthcare solutions, Project Management Training and Our new website is mobile-friendly and designed to automatically fit ongoing support services. OCSHI is fully committed to bringing the latest every screen size, including smartphones, tablets, widescreen computer Healthcare IT technology to its clients. monitors. www.ocshi.com It is now easier than ever to download documents and files, log PowerAssists, as well as register for the upcoming PHS Networking and Training Conference using your mobile device from wherever you are. www.powerhealthsolutions.com 2 © 2015 PowerHealth Solutions engine) in collaboration with Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust. Registrations Now Open Albatross is the PHS distributor for PPM in the UK. Efficiency and quality in the NHS Dmitry will be giving us an overview of the changing landscape of costing & funding in the UK's National Health Service over the past 15 years. He will share his insights into the new seven-year costing roadmap (spanning 2015-2021) recently introduced by Monitor, the independent healthcare regulator, to improve efficiency in the costing process and therefore the national tariff. He will scrutinise the effectiveness of the Registrations are now open for the PowerHealth Solutions’ 2015 roadmap using national benchmarking data. Networking and Training Conference, in Adelaide 26-27 May 2015. Dates: Tuesday 26 - Wednesday 27 May 2015 Venue: Adelaide Pavilion corner South Terrace and Peacock Road, Adelaide Marc Voyvodich Cost: Excellent value at $400pp, with Early Bird discount Stroudwater Associates, USA $200pp before 27th April. Marc Voyvodich is an expert in the healthcare We will send you an invoice after you have registered industry. Over the last three decades, he has worked with online. doctors, hospitals, health insurance companies, and Dinner: Adelaide Oval with live band “The Deer Johns” universities to improve the quality of care they have been Accommodation: Quest Apartments and Grand Chifley Hotel. providing as well as enhancing their efficiency and productivity. Marc is founder and Chair of the Board of Directors at Stroudwater Click here to go to the Conference Landing Page. Associates. His primary focus over the past 28 years has been assisting clients in performance improvement through clinical service and facility, strategic, and operational planning. Preceding the creation of Stroudwater Associates, Marc was the first Executive Director of SYNERNE (a 20+ hospital Efficiency and Quality Theme alliance in northern New England) and Program Officer at the Robert Wood Maintaining the balance between efficiency and quality in healthcare is Johnson Foundation, where his responsibilities included managing national essential in the current environment of challenging efficiency targets and programs in emergency medicine, rural medical practice development, and budgetary constraints. new program development. This is becoming more critical as the Australian Government is planning The future isn’t what it used to be to increase efficiency and quality by reducing spending on low-value Marc will share his insights into the state of the healthcare industry in interventions and getting serious about combating avoidable side-effects, the US. His view is that we are currently at an inflection point that will begin mistakes and infections. Their figures show that TEN per cent of all health the move away from the historical trajectory of the past 50 years. Driving expenditure — as much as $15 billion a year — could be saved through