Aged Care Industry I.T. Company in partnership with Ozcare, Anglicare Southern Queensland, Villa Maria Catholic Homes Ltd, BaptistCare NSW & ACT, and Swinburne University of Technology has been awarded an ARIIA grant for their project ‘Improving Quality Use of Clinical Care Systems in Australian Aged Care – Translating Contemporary Evidence into Practical High-Quality Implementation’.
This project will undertake a range of co-design activities with aged and community care providers, along with a range of internationally recognised industry experts, succinctly aimed at the translation of contemporary evidence of clinical systems capabilities and use. This will also investigate the systems architecture required and use these sources of information to develop a practical high-quality implementation tool. The co-design process will contribute to the tool design and the detailing of implementation plans and processes.
Following a product design cycle methodology, the project will design a workforce capability assessment tool that indicates how ready aged care staff are to achieve a fully digital clinical care system. The assessment tool will also include a digital benchmarking tool that provides an indication of digital maturity for clinical systems in Australian residential aged care settings.
The tool will aim to guide the sector to more digitally mature clinical systems, specifically, clinical systems that assist in care for people with Dementia, and those that can be applied to restorative care and rehabilitation settings.