The $140 million Sunshine Private Hospital will go live with Telstra Health’s Kyra Clinical electronic medical record when it opens its doors in Melbourne’s west next year.

The new hospital is being built by health insurer Australian Unity’s property trust and will be operated by private equity owned Unitas Healthcare on a 30-year lease.

It will open with a 30-bed medical and surgical ward and a 21-bed mental health unit, with plans to expand to 120 beds in future, situated directly opposite the public Sunshine Hospital.

It will also offer IVF, day surgery, day chemotherapy, radiology, pathology, mental health services, four operating rooms and an endoscopy suite.

The mental health facility will focus on the treatment of anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress disorders including inpatient and outpatient support programs.

The site is at the Victorian government’s Sunshine Health, Wellbeing and Education precinct, which includes Sunshine Hospital, the new Joan Kirner Women’s and Children’s Hospital, and a $51m health teaching and training campus.

Telstra Health’s Kyra EMR provides real-time access to patient information, including on mobile devices, and enables peer-to-peer communication between all clinicians, clinical teams and patients.

The company said Kyra Clinical enables a smooth transfer of care between wards and theatres, eReferrals from consultations and medication management.

Telstra Health’s new head of hospitals and connected health, Chris Norton, said the EMR is a clinically led digital hospital solution that lets healthcare organisations improve patient safety and patient experiences.

Mr Norton, formerly Telstra Health’s head of strategy, business development and advisory services, said the new system would support multidisciplinary care teams to work together to provide efficient patient-centred care on any device, helping staff spend more time with patients.