Tektology Blog: Winter pressures

  • January 26, 2023
  • 4 min read

Winter is a challenging time for healthcare providers around the world. Each year, the cold weather brings with it a decline in population health owing to the higher prevalence of seasonal illnesses like norovirus, ‘flu, asthma and more recently, COVID-19. The combined effect is a high demand for healthcare services, particularly among the elderly and […]

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The provision of quality healthcare systems is a global priority, however increasingly, there is an additional imperative to ensure that healthcare is delivered in a more sustainable way, one which minimises our negative impact on the planet. Historically, little attention has been paid to the sustainability credentials of the healthcare industry, because of the life-saving […]

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AI in Healthcare

  • November 28, 2022
  • 7 min read

Artificial Intelligence, or AI, is increasingly shaping the world around us. We now live in a digital age in which AI, far from being the domain of the tech giants, is such a regular feature of our everyday lives that it’s becoming difficult to find examples of areas in which it’s not used. From face recognition software […]

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During the past thirty years, there has been an exponential increase in the use of EHRs (electronic health records) to record, share, store and process patient data.  Since the introduction of the personal computer – both in the home and the workplace – in the 1990’s, IT equipment has become more efficient, more affordable and […]

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Health data research is an exciting field. Thanks to developments in technology, an increase in wearable devices, and fundamental changes in consumer expectations of the healthcare sector, we now have access to an abundance of previously unavailable data which has the potential to change the face of healthcare delivery across the world and improve patient […]

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Patient Flow Improvement

The situation •A large health system in Australia was experiencing poor Emergency Access performance at two of its main metropolitan hospital sites. Internal efforts to identify cause and strategies to improve performance had not achieved any material change, and cultural differences between the sites and between ED and inpatient teams had led to an impasse.  Tektology […]

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Situation:  •Tektology were engaged to support a large health system in Australia who are undergoing the design phase of  a new metropolitan hospital. Tektology were tasked to provide an outstanding vision for the hospital by looking to global exemplars in innovation, hospital developments and precinct design.  Solution:  •Tektology used its global expert team to identify and engage with […]

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SITUATION:  •Our client established their Expansion Plan to deliver a broad range of interrelated and interdependent strategies to improve the capacity and capability of Emergency Department (ED) services across their two sites, as well as increasing their overall clinical capability and capacity. •Presentations to the FMC ED over recent years had increased rapidly. In the […]

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SITUATION: ​ Tektology were engaged by one of 5 Health Networks in the state Healthcare System in Australia.  The state cares for a population of just under 2m people and has a wide variation of health outcomes and social demographic factors spread across large urban, remote and very remote areas.  The Client has 20 sites across the network with some sites […]

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Situation Tektology were commissioned by a local health network in Australia that had seen rising numbers of patients on the elective surgery waiting list, and importantly an increasing number of patients exceeding the target waiting times for their category. The Department of Health requested a plan to address this at the end of 2020, but […]

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