UTILISING STREAMLINED TECHNOLOGY
On the technology front, Independence Australia
developed a portal for the scheme, called the
Continents Management and Support Scheme (CMSS)
which includes an online component that enables
practitioners to access a
patient’s file wirelessly.
“
We have made the
administrative part of a
nurse’s work effortless.
The nurse goes and puts
the client online and
they can access that
information anytime by
entering the client’s information,” says Turner. While
this is a useful application in terms of monitoring
current prescriptions, it also expedites the processing
of new prescription orders by determining if the
patient is illegible for funding. “The portal decides
funding illegibility and then sends the final order into
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