The once troubled Weststate Private Hospital venture that plans to convert the former Townsville West State School in northern Queensland into a short-stay hospital specialising in orthopaedics and urology has added to its IT portfolio, contracting Rauland Australia to implement its Concentric Care nurse call and patient engagement platform in the 50-bed hospital.

The $60.5 million Weststate Private is understood to have contracted with Phillips Healthcare for its Tasy electronic medical record in what its proponents say will be the first fully digital day hospital in northern Australia.