Trend Care Systems has developed management solutions to satisfy a real need in healthcare. Demands on funding require hospitals to be highly focused on providing best practice patient outcomes, optimising efficiency in work practices and the utilisation of human resources.
The Trend Care Acuity, Clinical Pathway and Care Planning systems are our primary products. A multidisciplinary rostering and HRM system is also available. Additional functions such as bed management, diet ordering, medical and nursing clinical handovers, allied health intervention tracking, patient assessments and discharge planning are also provided.
The Trend Care solution links seamlessly to patient management systems via HL7 messaging.
TrendCare operates in a large number of public and private hospitals across Australia and New Zealand, where the market continues to expand and grow on an annual basis.
TrendCare has been successfully implemented into three hospitals in Bangkok. A number of large public sector hospitals have expressed a strong interest in implementing TrendCare and TrendCare plans to extend the Thailand client profile in early 2008.
Following the successful implementation of Trend Care across all Singapore Ministry of Health hospitals in 2007, Trend Care is now seeking new markets in Asia and the Middle East.
Trend Care is a clinical information and workload management system providing dynamic decision support. Functions include:
- Patient acuity/nurse dependency
- Nurse patient ratios/skill mix measures
- Workload management
- Clinical pathways
- Care plans
- Medical and nursing clinical handovers
- Allied health intervention register
- Patient assessments
- Patient clinical risk analysis
- Discharge analysis
- Diet ordering
- Bed management
- Human resource management
- Multidisciplinary rostering and multiple ward rostering
Trend Care is a research-based best of breed clinical decision support solution, and is considered the leader in its field across Australia, New Zealand and Asia. In 2007 Trend Care was fully implemented across all Ministry of Health Hospitals in Singapore (in excess of 8,500 beds). The Singapore Ministry of Health selected Trend Care as the preferred IT solution to plan and manage nursing services for all wards and departments in their eight specialty hospitals.
Testimonials from clients
“As the first hospital to use TrendCare in Singapore, the National University Hospital's Nursing Department has been very pleased with the results to date. Our users find the software intuitive and easy to use. TrendCare has provided us with good user and IT support from Australia, and adapted the product quickly where required to meet our needs. From a management point of view, we are just beginning to discover the very useful reports and supporting data on manpower and patient acuity. Going forward, I expect these reports will be instrumental in making key changes in how we optimise our nursing staff. With the assistance of the Ministry of Health, the reports will also be useful in supporting improvements to the nursing staffing levels in Singapore public hospitals”.
Heidi Rafman - Senior Manager, Nursing Operations
TrendCare Project Manager
National University Hospital – 990 acute beds
“TrendCare provides the evidence we need about "what nurses do" as well as provide a timely management system for nursing unit managers. As an information system it is information rich with minimal input from users and that is a significant strength when dealing with busy nurses. The product is user friendly and is also well supported by the Trendcare team who are very responsive to client needs”.
Glynda Summers - Executive Director of Nursing Services
Cairns Health Service District – 307 beds
“TrendCare has been used by the Mater Health Services campus in all 7 hospitals for over 10 years and is an integral tool for decision support in the nursing services”.
“Nursing hours are efficiently managed and work is allocated equitably to nursing staff using the system. Nurse managers use data from TrendCare for a wide range of functions including; clinical handovers, diet ordering, bed management, rostering and work allocation. Automated pathways are currently being implemented across the Mater campus”.
“As Director of Nursing of a large tertiary private hospital I have immediate access to staff and patient information through the TrendCare system”.
“I recommend the TrendCare system because of its user friendly qualities and the wide scope of functions and reporting”.
Ms Patricia Snowden
Director of Nursing
Mater Private Hospital Brisbane
Mater Health Services (920 beds)
“I have used the TrendCare system in a range of hospitals during the past twelve years. Throughout this time, the use of TrendCare has assisted me by providing invaluable information in an easy to interpret format which enables rapid decision making. As the Director of Clinical Services at St Andrew’s Private Hospital in Brisbane Australia I have used the data generated through TrendCare to maintain high quality care in an efficient, cost effective environment. By using the TrendCare product, I have been able to accurately match supply and demand for nursing services and a range of non-clinical environments. The system has assisted me in creating realistic, manageable budgets and assisted in re-engineering services to accommodate the changing needs of the organisation and community”.
“The TrendCare System has provided me with clear, supportive information when changes in patient acuity and activity have altered the cost of a department. The system is user friendly and TrendCare Systems have consistently been responsive to the needs of the users and have provided us with solutions that continue to enhance the decision support capabilities. It has reduced the workload for many additional areas such as Human Resource Management by providing up to date information on the training, competency and registration status of all staff members”.
Maryanne Hambrecht
Director of Nursing
St Andrew’s War Memorial Hospital – 273 beds