Five-strong Clinical team to assist hospitals

Emendo invests in new five-strong Clinical team to assist hospitals

Press release 19 January, 2011, Emendo Ltd, Christchurch, NZ: Health IT company, Emendo Ltd, has created a new five-person Clinical team to help hospitals meet increasingly challenging operational targets and achieve better patient outcomes with CapPlan. The newly formed Emendo Clinical team will be based in and support hospitals in Australia/New Zealand, United Kingdom, Canada and the United States. The strategic investment follows recent large regional wins in Australia and Canada, and readies the company for an anticipated global surge in demand.

“Around the world health budgets are being slashed, operational targets are becoming more stringent, and the aged-population is increasing. The pressure all this is placing on health care systems has never been more acute,” says Dave Tinkler, CEO of Emendo.

“Many hospitals have been implementing lean initiatives to help them meet their health targets and improve clinical decision making. CapPlan complements these initiatives by creating the catalyst for hospitals to re-evaluate and modify traditional and uneconomic practices, and enabling them instead to manage resourcing based on forecasted patient demand.

“There is an increasing need for real-time visibility of available beds, theatre, and staff resources across regional hospitals, and CapPlan has the ability to deliver,” says Dave. “This new team will be the linchpin to ensure hospitals develop best practice system and process design and achieve real clinical results with the software. They are all leaders and specialists in the field of health informatics who are passionate about achieving measurable improvements for hospitals, staff and patients.”

Alan Spinks, former National Programme Manager for Quality, Improvement & Innovation at New Zealand’s Ministry of Health, has been brought in as Clinical Advisor to lead the development of Emendo’s new Clinical unit. He says the difficulty many hospitals have is finding the commitment to look holistically at the patient journey and challenge traditional processes while they’re operating day to day in crisis mode.

“Emendo recognises the many challenges hospitals face from bottlenecks to health cuts, and has designed CapPlan to help them to better manage their resources and keep on top of demand,” says Alan. “Our role in the Clinical team is to look after hospitals through the implementation and change process and help them realise how they can achieve optimal operational efficiencies and deliver the required results within their health targets.”

The other four Clinical staff recruited to join the team are:

Leigh Singers, Clinical Consultant, New Zealand
Brian Dolan, Clinical Consultant, UK
Zena Lind, Clinical Consultant, Canada
Arthur Lambert, Chief of Clinical Systems, US

The announcement raises the total Emendo staff count to 47.

Emendo’s CapPlan solution is today enabling over 40 hospitals throughout New Zealand, Australia, Canada and the UK to forecast patient demand and plan resourcing accordingly. All of them, including Bedford Hospital Trust in the UK, are reporting significant savings and efficiencies since implementing CapPlan, usually in the region of hundred of thousands or millions of dollars per year. In 2009, the CapPlan implementation at Bedford was named winner of the ''Adopt, Adapt and Improve" category of the national Health and Social Care Awards.

Emendo also recently cemented its foothold in Canada by establishing the Emendo Health office in Vancouver, run by Canadian Business Development Manager Robin Abrey. Six hospitals in the Vancouver region are using CapPlan.

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