Enhancing patient management at point of care using electronic-based clinical pathways

临床路径已被大多数澳大利亚医院采用，“概念验证”数字化临床路径管理系统（DCPMS）的开发将为澳大利亚医疗保健系统提供显着的好处，提高这种方法的效率。 这些措施包括改善护理成果，使病人的需求与护理和其他卫生资源更好地匹配，以及更好地管理资源，将节省的资金重新用于一线病人护理。 然后，澳大利亚的这一创新可以出口到国际卫生系统，这些系统越来越多地转向利用临床路径信息的医院资助模式。

Clinical pathways have been adopted by most Australian hospitals and the development of a 'proof of concept' digitised clinical pathways management system (DCPMS) would provide significant benefits to the Australian healthcare system in improving the efficiency of this approach. These include improved outcomes of care arising from a better match of patient requirements to nursing care and other health resources and better management of resources where savings can be re-directed into front-line patient care. This Australian innovation can then be exported to international health systems that are increasingly turning to hospital funding models that utilise clinical pathway information.