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  1. Connecting health services

    30 Jun 2017

    Sunraysia Community Health Service propose to develop a system-wide approach to integrated care, through a general practitioner Primary Health Clinic, co-located with their broad range of allied...

  2. Carers watch: a neighbourhood approach to out of hospital care

    30 Jun 2017

    This proposal seeks to pilot a ‘Carers Watch’ program – a geographically, place-based approach to support carers. It would assist in the early identification of carers, and improve their awareness of...

  3. Manage my cerebral palsy platform

    30 Jun 2017

    This proposal seeks to build the ‘Manage my CP’ platform: the first digital tool to empower, support and educate families in best management and care of their child’s Cerebral Palsy...

  4. Moving beyond Physiotherapy Arthroplasty Review Services (PARS). The future of reviewing joint replacement patients.

    30 Jun 2017

    This proposal seeks to audit the existing cohort of Barwon Health’s joint replacement patients to identify those at low and high risk of complications or prosthetic failure. This is anticipated to...

  5. A new method for distinguishing between epileptic seizures and non-epileptic events

    30 Jun 2017

    This project involves a partnership with a Melbourne-based company to develop a hardware and software solution as an innovative diagnostic method for epilepsy...

  6. Patient-centred care, Mobile Phone Health App.

    30 Jun 2017

    This project will use a mobile device application to integrate electronic health records, online video consulting, medication management, home monitoring results and health activity management to...

  7. Integrated Care for Complex Medical Patients

    30 Jun 2017

    This project seeks to integrate electronic health records with core hospital systems, automatically sending patients’ clinical records to general practitioners and medical specialists, as well as...

  8. Building a Victorian 'Flo'

    30 Jun 2017

    This project aims to trial the NHS ‘Flo’ technology in 2017 in general practices with interest in chronic disease management, focusing on chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and diabetes, as key...

  9. Keeping dental care out of hospital theatres – clinical pathway for dental patients using alternative pharmacological behaviour management techniques

    30 Jun 2017

    The project will ensure primary care oral health agencies are equipped to provide care, where patients were previously referred to tertiary institutions for treatment under general anaesthetic...

  10. Packing more punch: new approaches to increase the impact of clinical quality registries on improving patient care, using the Victorian Lung Cancer Registry

    30 Jun 2017

    This project proposes to rapidly expand the Victorian Lung Cancer Registry to 30 sites, capturing almost all Victorians diagnosed and treated for lung cancer...

  11. Australian Ovarian Cancer Registry pilot - a clinical quality registry

    30 Jun 2017

    The establishment of an Ovarian Cancer Registry to pilot in 10 major metropolitan and rural hospitals would collect an agreed set of clinical quality indicators. The information would be used to...

  12. Expanding the scope and reach of the Elective Orthopaedic pathways program

    30 Jun 2017

    This proposal seeks to establish a dedicated Elective Orthopaedic Pathways Program (EOPP) Coordinator to review the EOPP Model of Care and expand the service to include more elective and trauma...

  13. Improve access to outpatient clinics

    30 Jun 2017

    This project proposes a long term re-design of the Outpatient Service including standardised access and referral, streamlined scheduling, reconfigured booking schedules to maximise available capacity...

  14. Axon - Software to guide clinical care

    30 Jun 2017

    This proposal seeks to deliver a software platform incorporating established best practice clinical guidelines and intelligently deliver them to clinicians as part of their workflow, and at the point...

  15. Early falls intervention project

    30 Jun 2017

    This proposal seeks to embed new technology within the existing MePACS pendant system, including a falls accelerometer, mobile technology so the user may activate the alarm when away from home and a...

  16. Healthy Community Bendigo - Phase 2

    30 Jun 2017

    This project seeks to implement a collective impact approach to improve the population’s health through coordinated planning and delivery of best practice health prevention strategies. Key areas...

  17. At home tele-monitoring of patients with chronic disease

    30 Jun 2017

    This project proposes to expand the telehealth technology in Djerriwarrh Health Service’s community health and sub-acute ambulatory care settings for a range of chronic conditions, to provide...

  18. Working together for the kids

    30 Jun 2017

    This project proposes an outreach model where a paediatrician and paediatric advanced trainee provide children with complex needs and their parent(s) / carer(s) with consultations in designated school...

  19. Nurse Practitioner and RiPERN Assessment and Collaborative Care

    30 Jun 2017

    This project aims to introduce a Nurse Practitioner / Rural Isolated Practice Registered Nurse Assessment and Collaborative Care Model to identify and provide active case management to those who don’t...

  20. Economic evaluation of a pilot outreach oral health program for older adults living in residential aged care facilities

    30 Jun 2017

    This project will pilot an outreach model of care to increase access to dental services for older adults living in RACF. It will evaluate the cost-effectiveness of advanced practice oral health...

  21. Applying internal audit processes to the review of public hospital maternity services

    30 Jun 2017

    This project proposes to apply the international standard for internal audit approach to maternity services, to provide a systematic review of variance of care across a select number of public...

  22. Loddon Mallee regional clinical telehealth hub

    30 Jun 2017

    This proposal seeks to provide second generation telehealth modeling and services to all rural and regional hospitals within the Loddon Mallee Region. Bendigo Health ED Physicians and Mental Health...

  23. Twin pregnancy mobile app

    30 Jun 2017

    This project seeks funding to launch a smart phone and tablet app, to provide evidence based advice and a free interactive guide on twin pregnancy, birth and early parenting. It will serve as a...

  24. Flying doctor Dental Education Package - DEP

    30 Jun 2017

    To build capacity of existing local health services, this project proposes to enhance referral pathways and provide education to existing non-dental health providers in rural locations across Victoria...

  25. Stroke follow up service

    30 Jun 2017

    The Stroke Foundation proposes a model to follow up 7,000 Victorians discharged from hospital each year following a stroke, via phone call from a Stroke Foundation health professional, who will assess...

  26. Development of an innovative model of care for complex bariatric patients

    30 Jun 2017

    The project proposes to develop a specialist bariatric clinic, including a multi-disciplinary specialist team, offering individual and group sessions over 6-12 months to address behavioural change...

  27. Children's dental program - expanded project

    30 Jun 2017

    This project proposes to expand an outreach model of care provided by public dental services to improve access to, and utilisation of, dental services by children...

  28. Embedding integration in the treatment of musculo-skeletal conditions across acute and primary care

    30 Jun 2017

    In conjunction with primary care partners, Melbourne Health has established a community-based Back Pain Assessment and Management Service (BAMS) to address lengthy waiting times for surgical...

  29. To establish Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator registry in Victoria

    30 Jun 2017

    The implantable cardioverter defibrillator registry will collect data on patient demographics, clinical presentation and diagnosis; assess appropriateness of device implantation, and measure and...

  30. Palliative care family support model

    30 Jun 2017

    This project explores the best model of carer support across multiple sites in the Eastern region of Melbourne, including consumer and staff consultation and current evidence based strategies...

  31. Wimmera persistent pain hub and spoke telehealth program

    30 Jun 2017

    Local residents experiencing chronic pain will have timely access to best-practice pain management services close to home. pain hub and spoke telehealth program...