Not-for-profit aged care service supplier HammondCare has tapped German enterprise monitoring options supplier Paessler to proactively monitor its IT infrastructure nationwide.
With greater than 5,100 devoted workers and volunteers, HammondCare delivers aged care, dementia care and palliative care to round 34,000 shoppers in over 92 service areas throughout Australia.
It has rolled out the Paessler PRTG, a round the clock community monitoring software program, throughout its 76 care amenities.Â
WHY IT MATTERS
“HammondCare’s major goal in implementing the Paessler PRTG monitoring platform was to offer our crew with proactive insights and alerts to minimise the common incidents that have been occurring beforehand,” infrastructure and cloud supervisor Kasun Haputhanthri mentioned.
Since deploying the PRTG software program, it has seen a 75% discount in IT crew callouts to resolve points that would result in attainable IT outages.Â
In accordance with a media launch, this technique can shortly establish and resolve potential points by sending alerts to a Microsoft Groups group, forwarding emails to acceptable technicians, and pushing notifications about anomalies through the PRTG cell app.
“Paessler PRTG has enabled quicker decision of IT issues, permitting me and my crew to be extra proactive and environment friendly and has in the end achieved its major goal of minimising downtime,” Haputhanthri claimed.
HammondCare is now utilizing over 2,500 community sensors as a part of the PRTG system and plans so as to add extra sooner or later. It’s now additionally including monitoring for important healthcare gear like nurse name buttons and is planning to digitise all its belongings that the PRTG can monitor.Â
THE LARGER TREND
In 2021, the Royal Fee into Aged Care High quality and Security famous how the aged care sector was “deeply analogue” and “properly behind” different sectors within the use and software of contemporary applied sciences. The just lately shaped Aged Care Expertise Consortium additionally revealed in a report in June final 12 months that there was a lack of digital system implementations throughout the aged care sector.
To this finish, the federal authorities introduced in October that it pledged A$312.6 million (round $200 million) in funding over 4 years to enhance the ICT methods within the sector.
In different associated information, HammondCare just lately tried out telehealth for shoppers on dwelling care packages dwelling in regional and distant areas of New South Wales. Its Digital Restorative Care programme connects these dwelling care shoppers to occupational therapists, dieticians, physiotherapy and physiology consultations through digital know-how.
