Peninsula Health to deploy electronic tool for patient preferences

The platform uses survey-style questions to identify care priorities.

Australia’s Peninsula Health will introduce an electronic tool that records and communicates patients' needs and preferences to hospital staff across all wards of its upcoming multi-storey tower.

The tool uses survey-style questions to identify care priorities, needs, and preferences.

“In the new tower, each ward will have a designated support staff member who will introduce the tool to inpatients during their hospital stay,” said Rebecca Barnden, Comprehensive Care Manager at Peninsula Health.

Patients can either receive a text message with a link to the platform or be assisted by a designated support staff member who will enter the information on their behalf using an iPad.

Meanwhile, information from completed needs and preferences profiles will be available to clinicians for future presentations to the health service.

The tool has been trialled for over two years at Frankston Hospital and the Golf Links Road Rehabilitation Centre, involving 1,000 consumers.

“The concept has been well received by clinicians. Having access to this information is helping them personalise their care planning and delivery, which is incredibly important,” said Barnden, who led the project.