PenCS launches GP informatics platform

Practice Cloud offers CPD support and various ways to improve practice efficiency.

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Aussie health informatics company PenCS has today launched a new digital health intelligence platform called Practice Cloud, aimed at giving Australian general practices and Aboriginal member services access to data-led insights, reports and dashboards. 

“Practice Cloud is a SaaS-based, next-generation health informatics platform which addresses the need for flexibility and scalability to meet rapidly evolving practice requirements and technology developments in Australian healthcare,” said the company announcement. 

The new platform has a range of advanced features to boost workforce utilisation, reduce administrative constraints, improve financial/billing opportunities, streamline nurse-led initiatives and patient management frameworks for timely identification and recall for individuals with chronic conditions, and real-time longitudinal tracking of specific patient cohorts. It has the security of an ISO27001:2022 certified and HIPAA-compliant environment, to optimise practice efficiency. 

Practice Cloud includes a health calendar module, chronic disease success module and a financial module. The software will enable access to a MyMedicare management program, an award-winning risk-stratification tool to identify individuals at risk for planned recall, and professional development quality improvement activities for CPD hours. 

Practice Cloud’s evidence-based programs will provide support for 25 hours (of 50) of the annual CPD requirement for “Reviewing performance and/or measuring outcomes” and “out of the box” programs. 

“There’s no other platform that enables you to focus on practice outcomes with such depth by integrating clinical and financial information,” said PenCS chief medical adviser and GP, Dr Kean-Seng Lim. 

Edweana Wenkart, the company’s CEO, said Practice Cloud was “intuitively designed”. 

“[It] is designed to increase practice revenue, decrease costs to the healthcare system and support healthcare providers to focus on preventive care for better patient outcomes,” she said.  

“In short, it’s a huge step towards systemising a micro to macro value-based healthcare model in primary care.”