Tellimed develops and commercialises new medical technologies to facilitate better care processes.
Tellimed Incident Monitoring System (TIMS)
Tellimed has conducted over 5 years of research and development into electronic incident monitoring, which aims to improve patient safety and quality in hospitals by monitoring adverse events and guiding the treatment administered by doctors and other health professionals. Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) with our software allowing point-of-care data collection have been trialled at 3 metropolitan Melbourne and a Brisbane hospital. (The Geelong Hospital, The Alfred, Peter MacCallum and the Royal Brisbane Hospital). Associate Professor Stephen Bolsin has published extensively on the trials, which showed the technology encouraged accurate self-reporting and produced a database that could be remotely analysed to give feedback and improve practices. Tellimed has recently conducted further research into hospital safety and quality innovations and has partnered with Safe Surgery Systems (UK), leaders in the field. Tellimed is aiming to introduce TIMS into all Australian public hospitals. By ensuring that all incidents and near misses are reported, hospital practices will improve and patient morbidity and mortality will decrease dramatically.
Monica AN24 Antenatal Surveillance Device
Tellimed is the Australasian distributor for a recently released portable foetal monitoring device. The Monica AN24 Antenatal Surveillance Device provides a 24 hour uninterrupted foetal monitoring record to give doctors a better understanding of the health of mother and foetus during pregnancy. The information recorded by Monica either be downloaded by the doctor or relayed wirelessly via the Internet in real-time.
Safe Surgery System
In 2007 Tellimed entered into an agreement with Safe Surgery Systems Ltd, health technology developers based in the UK. The Safe Surgery System™ provides passive decision support technology in the form of passive radio frequency identification (RFID) or active WiFi tagging of patients. By ensuring positive patient identification the system discourages surgical mistakes. The system is being trialled in Tellimed’s day procedure centre, The Western Day Surgery (St Albans, VIC), before being rolled out to larger hospitals.
