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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
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