Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network (SCHN) is now live with a new solution integrated into its Cerner electronic medical record (EMR) that provides a direct communications link between multiple clinicians and their patients or carers through an app on the patient’s mobile device.

The Cartula Health solution went live in November and allows clinicians to send information such as care plans and discharge summaries to the patient’s app from an MPage within the EMR, and to receive communication back from the patient or carer directly in the EMR through HL7 messaging.