Region­al Care Con­nect was a pilot that test­ed ways to improve coor­di­na­tion between hos­pi­tal, gen­er­al prac­tice and vir­tu­al care services. 

The pilot brought togeth­er a region­al gen­er­al prac­tice, the Com­mu­ni­ty Engage­ment Project and the SA Vir­tu­al Clin­i­cal Care ser­vice. It used hos­pi­tal dis­charge infor­ma­tion and clin­i­cal risk indi­ca­tors to help iden­ti­fy patients who may ben­e­fit from addi­tion­al fol­low-up and vir­tu­al care.

Fur­ther work is explor­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties for research, pub­li­ca­tion and eval­u­a­tion. The find­ings may help inform future deci­sions about the model’s use and investment.

We’re work­ing with health ser­vices, gen­er­al prac­tices and res­i­den­tial aged care providers to improve how clin­i­cal infor­ma­tion is shared when patients move from hos­pi­tal to com­mu­ni­ty-based care.

Cur­rent work includes improv­ing how dis­charge infor­ma­tion is sent elec­tron­i­cal­ly and devel­op­ing tools to help gen­er­al prac­tices iden­ti­fy and fol­low up patients after hos­pi­tal care.

We’re explor­ing how hos­pi­tal and gen­er­al prac­tice infor­ma­tion can be bet­ter con­nect­ed and used appro­pri­ate­ly to sup­port patient care.

This work includes explor­ing how infor­ma­tion can be linked to sup­port bet­ter con­ti­nu­ity of care, shared-care plan­ning, research and future health-sys­tem improvement.

We’re explor­ing ways to improve the vis­i­bil­i­ty of Advance Care Direc­tives when peo­ple move between care settings. 

These direc­tives record a person’s pref­er­ences for their future care. Mak­ing them eas­i­er for health pro­fes­sion­als to access could help sup­port deci­sions that bet­ter reflect a person’s wishes.

We’re work­ing with research and clin­i­cal part­ners to turn promis­ing women’s health research into prac­ti­cal improvements.

Cur­rent work includes sup­port­ing endometrio­sis research, diag­nos­tic inno­va­tion and the devel­op­ment of approach­es that could improve access to ear­li­er diag­no­sis and care.