My Portal

PACS

MedicalClient

PathologyOrder test

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RadiologyOrder test

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AnatpatchOrder test

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DietCode

AdministrationMedical

My Desktop

ElectronicPrescription

Clinical Delivery Platforms

PECO provides a window to access clinical and administrative benefits from the bedside. Clinical access can be achieved by inserting a smart card, this allows, for example;Doctors to talk patients through their x-ray results;Show patients diagrams depicting the benefits and risks of a pending operation;Perform positive identification checks on a patient;Provide informative videos explaining what patients can do to prevent injuring themselves following an operation, allowing visitors and loved ones to simultaneously view the information;Citrix or Browser access to clinical or administrative systems;Nurses to discharge patients through the hospital systems;Cleaners to register a room as finished to enable administrative staff to utilise the bed faster;Dieticians to structure menus for patients individual clinical needs;

Video conferencing facilities allowing specialists or doctors to consult patients in remote locations;GP is to consult with patients by video conference to monitor their progress.Patients and nurses can also benefit with the provision of patient servic es at the bedside, for example;Patients can request a glass of water or a bed pan directly, allowing nurses or orderlies to perform such simple tasks in one tri p to the bed;Menu’is can be ordered directly by the patient in real-time eliminating food wastage that occurs when patients have been discharged;Ordering “Going Home Packages” such as having milk and bread delivered to the house in time for the return home;Video conference facilities allowing patients to show off their new baby to relatives overseas.

Virtual Visiting or Video “Rounds”

Medical Guidance to Patients

Medical Database access Video Conferencing

Efficient time management

Relief of the “pre” and “post” activities

Real time information and

updates

Conference consultations and expert opinions

Time and energy savings leading to

improved performance

Time savings and promoting the

patients’ healing and confidence

Avoid mistakes,prevent medical

negligence

Share HR, expertise, hence improve the

use of resources

Clinical Delivery PlatformsPECO Product Overview

TSApps’s PECO is a software solution for the provision of integrated Patient Entertainment and Clinical Applications to the bedside. Aimed primarily at the hospital market, it provides the access infrastructure allowing clinicians to achieve productivity improvements as well as better wellness outcomes for patients.

PECO is an Australian-owned company specialising in the devel-opment, implementation and support of the software solutions for medical platforms. Billing, entertainment packages, and content are all managed through the software. With the capability of handling entertainment as well as clinical access, PECO satisfies multi ple requirements in the hospital environment.Rigid rules are placed on standardisation to ensure ease of management and high reliability levels.Reports are available for technical and revenue assessment purposes.PECO has been proven to work with browser and Citrix interfaces to ensure that clinical applications can be accessed.

Various branding opportunities exist. Hospitals can design their own look and feel effects in order to make PECO look like their own system.Advertisers also appreciate the value of PECO as it can provide exceptional access to different types of information. Advertis-ers can track enquiries from the patients allowing far better data pertaining to the success of their message to a highly targeted audience.TSAPPS software is managed professionally with appropriate change and release management procedures. It is well docu-mented and supported via an outsourced arrangement to ensure that IP is not c entred on any one staff member.

Software

Entertainment

SpeechAssistant

MyHospital

Services

PatientEducation

NurseAssistant

MenuServices

Works OnDemand

LocalCafe

InteractiveGames

FoxtelAustar

Internet EmailInstant

Messaging

BooksTV Phone

Radio MusicVideo

Clinical Delivery Platforms

Patients and nurses also benefit from the provision of richer entertainment servic es being available. Patients are kept entertained, have their minds on something else and generally feel better. This reduces further the workload on nursing staff. Entertainment capabilities include;

• Free to Air television,• Radio,• Movies on demand,• Music Videos on demand,• Talking Books,• Internet/email,• Telephone,• Pay TV, • Games.

Advertorials and advertisements targeted specifically to the patients needs.

Importantly, PECO GUI is capable of being displayed in multi ple languages, making it more attractive to hospitals in multi-cultural areas.

PECO bills patients for the use of Entertainment Servic es, it ensures that the provision of these servic es is of high quality, and it provides personalised support at the touch of a button to patients who experience difficulties.

The PECO terminal is a Touch Screen computer supported by a fully flexible arm enabling viewing from many angles as well as being able to be easily folded out of the way.

The Head End equi pment will usually be housed in a Data Centre managed by the hospital’is IT staff. It requires one rack in a controlled environment. Consisting of two servers, a switch and some television equi pment, the hardware is reliable and can be managed and operated remotely by TSApps’is support staff.

Content is loaded onto the Head End equi pment including movies, music videos and audio books.The Application server provides the link to the hospital systems enabling access from the bedside terminals.

Technical Overview

A typical installation will be configured similar to the diagram below;

Head End Equipment

A switch must be located on each floor or ward of the hospital. The switches must be housed in communications cabinets. The hospital

is responsible for providing cabling from the switches to the bedside.

Floor Switches

Touch screen terminals are located at each bedside. Each terminal is identical ensuring ease of management and support.The terminal and arms are coated with “Novaron” which reduces the potential for infections. The touch screen itself is flat and “ridge free” enabling it to be easily wi ped and sterilised in line with hospital infection control policies.The terminal is supported by an arm assembly that includes internal cabling. The arms have a clutch mechanism to ensure a soft landing

if too much weight is applied. With potential of a c eiling, pole or wall mount, the arms can be installed in all physical situations easily. They fold away easily into a variety of positions ensuring that they do not get in the way during a medical emergency.Telephone handsets are attached to the screen. PECO softphone is compatible with IP and analogue phones. It has accreditation to work with Cisco Call Manager.

Bedside Equipment

Clinical Delivery Platforms