4th April 2011 - Ascribe is pleased to announce the 'Go Live' of Ascribe’s Emergency Department (ED) solution (Symphony) at Eastern Health Maroondah Hospital, the third site of the Eastern Health network. The ‘Go Live’ was a great success, delivering a user friendly, comprehensive emergency department clinical solution with access to clinical and administrative patient information at the bedside in real time.

The Ascribe ED system implemented at Eastern Health includes patient triage and tracking, clinical orders, bed management, multidisciplinary progress notes and clinical documentation and electronic discharge summaries. It has delivered a fully electronic workflow for medical, nursing, allied health and administrative staff within the project budget and timeline. The Maroondah ‘Go Live’ also delivered a milestone for eHealth mobile computing and for the hospital’s ‘Symphony User Group’. Clinical staff are using Ascribe’s ED solution on Apple® iPad® and smartphone devices for the handover and patient review processes.


ED Director Dr Peter Archer uses Ascribe’s Emergency Department solution on his smartphoneAscribe would like to congratulate the Eastern Health project team and the Maroondah Symphony User Group on a great project outcome that is already delivering real benefit to the three emergency departments and the staff and patients of Eastern Health. The first emergency department of Eastern Health to ‘Go Live’ with Ascribe’s ED solution, Box Hill Hospital, has been live since March 2010 and Angliss Hospital, site two, went live in April 2010.

“The Ascribe Emergency Department application has been configured to suit the way we want to work, both in our department at Maroondah and at the other two Eastern Health sites of Box Hill Hospital and Angliss Hospital” says Dr Peter Archer, Emergency Department Director at Maroondah. “The implementation and go-live went very smoothly and staff are impressed with the system. The support given from the Ascribe implementation team and Eastern Health IT staff was great”.

Dr Peter Archer goes on to say, “The application is user-friendly so becoming proficient at using it in real-time workflow was quite painless and simple, also faster than we thought it would be. Ascribe’s Emergency Department solution is now a valuable tool in our clinical patient management, the system also provides us with the data we need to manage the department and patient care more efficiently.”

Ms Lisa Vermeulen, Nurse Unit Manager at Maroondah Emergency Department adds, “The nurses are now recording all of their triage, patient assessment, care planning and nursing notes electronically within the Ascribe solution. The use of the iPad mobile device for handover is great and a very useful timesaver. The transition to Ascribe was well planned with a high level of end-user input to the configuration and workflow design. This made the go-live quite seamless and even for those who are not very tech savvy, the system is user friendly and suits our workflow”, Ms. Vermeulen concludes.