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BEAMTREE HOLDINGS LIMITED — Board/Management Information 2021
Mar 17, 2021
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Board/Management Information
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ASX Announcement
PKS Holdings Limited (ASX: PKS)
Sydney, 18 March 2021
PKS welcomes healthcare leader Jim Birch as a Non-Executive Director
The Board of PKS Holdings Limited (ASX: PKS) (“PKS” or the “Company”), is pleased to announce the appointment of Australian healthcare leader Jim Birch AM as a Non-Executive Director.
Jim Birch has more than 30 years’ experience in implementing technological change in the healthcare industry, having previously served as Chair of the Australian Digital Health Agency, Deputy Chair of the Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, CEO of the SA Department of Health, and global healthcare leader for consulting firm EY.
He is currently Chair of the Little Company of Mary Health Care (Calvary), the Australian Red Cross Blood Service (now known as Lifeblood), the SA Women’s and Children’s Health Network and Clevertar Pty Ltd
PKS Chair, Mike Hill, is thrilled to have Jim joining the board as the business looks to expand its offering into hospitals and health services across the country and internationally.
“Jim brings unparalleled insight into the functioning of the Australian health system, including the opportunities where technology will improve patient safety and healthcare quality,” Hill says.
“He has devoted his career to improving patient outcomes and improving the operation of the healthcare system. We’re so pleased for Jim to join the PKS team, ensuring our strategy is targeted at the areas of greatest need for the public and private health system.”
Jim is excited to be joining PKS at such a pivotal time for the company.
“I have spent my career in health, working across the public and private sectors to improve how we use technology to inform service delivery and improve patient safety,” Jim says.
“I have seen firsthand how technology can transform healthcare services, but have also seen the gap between how insight is turned into intelligence.
“I’m personally committed to help the company deliver on its mission of improving patient outcomes and hospital resource allocation through better use of data.”
The Board wishes to advise the resignation of Mr van der Pluijm as a director of the Company.
The Board thanks Mr van der Pluijm for his valued contribution and services during his tenure as Chief Executive Officer and then as a Non-Executive Director of the Company.
This announcement has been authorised by the Chair.
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For further information please contact:
Tim Kelsey Mike Hill CEO PKS Holdings Chairman, PKS Holdings Phone: 0476 835 311 Phone: 0421 056 691
About PKS
PKS is an Australian Healthcare company that works with health organisations around the world to better capture, manage and leverage their human expertise to improve the performance of their business and deliver better patient outcomes. PKS’ products have a broad range of applications across the healthcare services industry. The key value propositions of the PKS’ suite of software applications focus on and have the potential to:
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Clinical Decision Support, which enables better decision making, leading to improved patient outcomes and a reduction in medical errors;
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Improve operational efficiency, with opportunities for significant cost savings and revenue improvements;
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Improve the quality of data, which makes the billing processes in healthcare organisations more accurate and more efficient; and
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Leverage off data analytics and benchmarking, which provides insights into healthcare data and enables healthcare organisations to improve the quality of patient care.
With the recent acquisition of Pavilion Health, the suite of software products now consists of:
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RippleDown® enables any clinical domain expert – typically a pathologist or clinician – to automate their unique, human decision-making process at scale in order to provide real-time clinical analysis, interpretations and treatment recommendations. By aggregating and analysing all available patient information – including current and historical results – RippleDown® is able to provide a holistic view of patients to generate the most comprehensive and patient-specific interpretations and recommendations.
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RippleDown® is managed by domain experts, not IT, enabling rules to be built quickly and easily to ensure the system remains updated and relevant.
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PICQ® is an auditing tool used in hospitals that assesses every record clinically coded for data quality. It measures data accuracy against indicators and identifies records for correction and uses a set of pre-determined indicators created and maintained by PKS’ subject-matter experts to identify records that may be incorrectly coded.
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RISQ[TM] Reviews records in datasets to assess the quality of Condition Onset Flags (COF) data and incidences of hospital-acquired complications (HACs). It provides a method to benchmark hospitals against statistical peers to provide industry benchmarks of HAC incidence and underlying data quality.
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Codexpert[TM] is a web-based eBook application providing the full health-data classification reference for clinical coding of patient episodes.
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