18 December 2019
Welcome to our final PowerPoints for 2019
2019 has been a very fulfilling year for our PowerHealth team. We loved hosting the PHS community at our biennial User Conference in Melbourne, we’re proud of the results achieved via partnerships with existing customers, delighted to welcome new customers, excited to expand our product range and energised by extending our company reach into new countries.
We thank you for your contribution to our success in 2019.
2020 is already shaping up to be a productive year and we look forward to working with you to make it a success for all.
Wishing you happiness for the year ahead
As we head towards the new year, we wish you and your families every happiness for 2020.
At times happiness can feel tough to maintain but investing in the right habits pays off. In the attached article, Dr Travis Bradberry details eleven habits of supremely happy people. A nice refreshing read as we head into the new year. READ MORE >>
PowerHealth News
PowerHealth Projects
Strengthening our Partnership with Eastern Health
This month PowerHealth strengthened our long-standing relationship with Eastern Health, going live with a new enterprise-level patient billing system.
The implementation of Power Billing and Revenue Collection across the Eastern Health network represents a fantastic opportunity for Eastern Health to streamline its billing processes, bringing about positive change for both patients and staff. Improvements in patient experience are a major focus of the project, along with increases in revenue capture.
We look forward to sharing the successful outcomes of this project in the coming months.
PPM Mobile Research Trial
PPM Mobile uses Bluetooth technology to accurately record the time clinical staff spend at each patient’s bedside. PowerHealth participated in a trial to test the assumption that poor patient experience is often linked to a lack of direct nursing time.
Canada PPM Project Reaching Last Milestone
PowerHealth’s Canadian PPM project is reaching the conclusion of the provincial costing implementation six months early. The Montreal team is currently finishing up on the provincial PPM deployments initiated in January 2018. Though the implementation phase is nearly completed, PowerSanté’s members are working hard to continue driving clinical engagement of the resulting information into individual establishments and making the healthcare network and the CDO autonomous.
The CDO is the operationalisation and development government organisation which will be ultimately responsible for maintaining and developing Patient Costing in Quebec and is taking on more and more responsibilities.
In the past three months, PHS’ team has been keeping busy implementing a provincial Submission Framework (SSRC) process, which will feed the Ministry of Health’s database (SI-CPSS); deploying the provincial Benchmark Portal, which will allow comparability of cost results and various indicators amongst healthcare establishments; and delivering studies to lay the groundwork for ABF on topics such as Ambulatory Classification Systems, Imagery Data Quality, Financial Database for validation and normalization, I-CLSC and others.
Out and About - Conferences
PCSI 34th Annual Conference, Copenhagen
In mid-November Patrick Power and Serge Boulard attended the PCSI 34th Annual Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark.
The conference theme was ‘Activity-based and value-based healthcare - connecting the dots’ and it provided an excellent forum for Patrick to share the learnings and achievements of PowerSante’s recent work.
Patrick presented on, ‘Patient costing and its value in Canadian healthcare’, with a focus on how timely data and clinical engagement significantly enhances the value derived from clinical costing information.
HFMA Victoria State Conference, Lorne
Robert Lawson and Nikhil Patwardhan enjoyed spending time with the HFMA Australia community in Lorne mid-November, where they chatted to attendees about all things costing, billing and budgeting.
Informatique Santé Conference, Québec
For a second year in a row, PowerSanté had a booth at the Informatique Santé Conference, which took place in Drummondville, Québec in early November.
This year’s topic, “Digital Technology Supporting Patients”, encouraged discussion on digital transformation within the Quebec healthcare network, telehealth and security, as well as transparency and clinical data mining.
The PowerSanté members answered the visitors’ questions regarding the CPSS (costing) project and showcased the provincial benchmark portal, a tool never seen before in Quebec, which will allow comparability of cost results and various indicators amongst healthcare establishments.
Québec Medical Association Conference, Montreal
Dr. Pierre Gagné, MD, MSc, FRCP(C), PowerSanté’s expert clinical consultant, was a guest speaker at the AMQ (Quebec Medical Association) conference organised for physicians who are also managers.
This Montreal-based conference took place on November 29th and Dr. Gagné focussed his presentation on the essential role physicians can play in using Patient Costing information to improve patient care.
Patrick Power (PHS) presenting at PCSI 2019. Patrick also pictured with Nizar Ghali (Quebec’s Ministry of Health) with PSCI Executive Committee members
Julien Miron and Marc Hyndman answering questions at Informatique Santé Conference
Marc Hyndman and Mélanie Dallaire at the PowerSanté booth, and Dr Pierre Gagné presenting at the AMQ Conference
Training
In late November, we hosted ‘PPM Beginners Overview Training’ at our Adelaide offices. The session covered the core modules of GL Setup, Data Load and Cost Dataset. The class was oversold so remember to book early!
This topic was selected by our PowerHealth community through an online poll.
Thanks to everyone for their active participation. We are already planning more training sessions for the new year, so please keep an eye out for more details.
The PowerSante team are looking forward to conducting their last PPM training for the year, and a data analysis training day in December.
PPM Training at PHS Adelaide
PowerHealth Values Awards
PowerHealth recently underwent a review of our Company Values. As a part of the roll out of the updated company values we have introduced a ‘Value of the Month’ Award. Each month we are focussing on a new Value and everyone is encouraged to make public when our PHS colleagues demonstrate that Value’s behaviours on our ThankBot Slack messaging channel. At the end of the month the Values Working Group will determine a winner.
Our first Value of the Month was ‘Results’ and our inaugural winner was Sahani Gunasekara, who received the highest number of ‘thanks’ linked to ‘results’ from her peers.
Next month we will be focussing on ‘Integrity’.
Vanessa (Human Resources Manager) congratulates Sahani on winning the inaugural PowerHealth Values Award
PowerHealth Annual Christmas Desk Decorating Competition
Adelaide Office
It’s become an annual tradition and the standard of Christmas desk decorating this year did not disappoint.
Congratulations to our Adelaide office winners, the PBRC Consulting team. Our winners took on the theme of the magical Christmas train, The Polar Express.
The competition winners were judged by the children of PowerHealth staff and they had a great time scoring each display.
Also featured in the office was a Enchanted forest leading to the Gingerbread house (Developers), Magic Cave with another Polar Express (Testing team), Candy Land (Admin/Finance), PowerHealth Advent Calendar (Project Managers/IT/Sales/Tech Writing) and Christmas Wonderland (PPM Consultants).
The Canadian team will be presenting their desk decorating entries on the 20th December, so please keep an eye on our social media channels ( Facebook and LinkedIn ) to view their creations.
10 Year Milestones
Congratulations to Ed Reinig, Senior Accountant and Anindya Chakraborty, PBRC Billing Consultant who this month celebrated their 10 year anniversary with PowerHealth. Thank you Ed and Anindya for your ongoing commitment to the PowerHealth team.
Patrick Power pictured with Anindya (left image) and Ed (right image)
PowerHealth Community
Link-In with us and Win
We’re building our LinkedIn community, so that we can share product news, industry insights and our customer’s achievements. If you’re not part of our LinkedIn Community already, please click here to follow our page.
As we head into Christmas, we’d love to share a Christmas treat with one of our newsletter readers. To WIN a Haigh’s voucher, simply ‘like’ our newsletter post on LinkedIn (posted today). We’ll be randomly picking the winner this Friday 20th December 2019.
Quebec Pink Project
To celebrate their 25th anniversary, the Quebec Breast Cancer Foundation asked Quebec to turn pink. Three cities answered the call: Montreal, Laval and Sherbrooke. PowerSanté were among the partners to take part in this pink wave.
The Quebec Pink Project sought to:
- Raise awareness of the cause of breast cancer
- Highlight 25 years of the Foundation
- Honour women and men living with breast cancer, and those who have survived.
It was a success, with great media coverage.
Every year, more than 6,500 Quebec women are diagnosed with breast cancer. Among them, more than 200 women will die. The mission of the Quebec Breast Cancer Foundation, to improve survival and quality of life, is at the heart of their commitment as well as awareness and prevention. As an extra contribution to the cause, the PowerSanté team raised $500 to donate to the Quebec Breast Cancer Foundation. READ MORE >>
Masters Games
The Australian Masters Games is a biennial sporting event that is regarded as one of the largest participation sporting events on the Australian sporting landscape, with more than 8,000 participants across 51 different sports. Congratulations to PowerHealth PBRC team members, Louise Deal and Frank LaFratta who both competed in the 2019 games held in Adelaide in October.
Dragon Boat Racing
Louise took part in the Dragon Boat racing. Lou has been paddling with Adelaide Phoenix Dragon Boat Club for two months and the Masters was the first time she had participated in a race. Her small team entered in 10 races. They unfortunately they did not win any medals but placed in every race. Lou noted that the Singapore teams were the standout competitors and won almost every event over the two days of competing. There were more than 1000 dragon boat participants registered, many of whom travelled from interstate and abroad to Adelaide to compete..
Taekwondo
Frank took part in the Taekwondo competition. Not only did he walk away with the Gold Medal for this category, but unfortunately also a broken middle finger! Frank’s gold medal play off consisted of two rounds.
Frank broke his finger in the first round, but heroically continued on and won the fight. Frank has been learning taekwondo for three years and was training for the competition for just eight weeks. Despite his triumph Frank notes the Masters may possibly be his first and last competition.
We wish Frank all the best as he currently recovers from finger surgery.
The Dragon Boat team in action and off the water (Lou second from right)
Frank in action in the gold playoff game
Admin Team Win Trifecta
Last week the PowerHealth Admin team enjoyed an end of year celebration with the Corporate Traveller team. We definitely had a lucky night, with Debbie, Leah and Ari each winning a raffle prize!
PowerHealth's Leah, Ari and Debbie (centre of picture), with the Corporate Traveller team either side.
PowerHealth Social
End of Year Celebrations
PowerHealth Adelaide
Last Friday, the Adelaide team celebrated the end of the year with a meal together at the Peel Street Restaurant. It was a great way to relax together after a very busy year.
A few fun moments were captured and are shared below.
Power Sante Quebec
We’re looking forward to hearing all about our Canadian team celebrations, when they celebrate their 2019 successes at an end of year function later this week.
The PHS Burger King
In November the sun was shining for a Fun, Food and Finska lunch. A big thanks to our very own Burger King, Lucas who cooked up a storm.
Fun! (Team park time)
Food! (Our Burger King)
Finska! (Ari in action)
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