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General Practitioners who visit Lynden

Aged Care are given access to the

iCareHealth system to update the

records of their patients. A majority

of the GPs are comfortable using the

system and appreciate the benefits

that it brings. In case a GP does not

make the entries himself, a nurse

types the details and the doctor signs.

There is no paper-work involved and

the successful implementation of

the system has resulted in improved

delivery of care, greater organisational

efficiency and higher staff productivity.

Ann Turnbull explains how technological

advances have made the quality of

care provided at Lynden Aged Care

better, “We currently utilise electronic

medication management. Back in the

good old days every resident had a

paper chart that kept all themedications

hand-written and signed by the doctor,

so if you had 30 people you were doing

a day round for, you had 30 charts. The

nurse had to physically look at every

drug and read at what time it was due,

to work out what pills to give the person

at 8 o’clock in the morning, for example.

That’s now electronic, so you log

into the computer, you sign in, you

say you want to do the 8 o’clock drug

round, it tells you the residents who