eHealth NSW is integrating its new electronic record for intensive care (eRIC) with other clinical applications such as the electronic medical record and patient administration system through an enterprise service bus (ESB), which will allow information in one system to be reflected in another through a common message model.
eHealth NSW integration analyst Min Zaw Lwin (pictured right with Holocentric's Bruce Nixon), who won the Don Walker Access Award at the Health Informatics Conference (HIC) in Melbourne this week for his presentation, said eRIC will be rolled out in one configuration to all intensive care and high dependency units in the state, meaning there will be one instance for all adult, paediatric and neonatal ICUs.
The eRIC project is using the MetaVision system from iMDsoft and is thought to be one of the largest implementations of a single ICU system in the world. Dr Lwin said it would replace the current systems used in NSW, which predominantly depend on nurses noting down data manually.
