2024 Sponsors
Choice Aged Care is Australia's leading professional services provider to the aged care sector.
650 facilities Australia wide utilise our solutions relating to:
- RMMR/QUM clinical pharmacy services;
- Staff training, learning and competencies (medication competency packages; aged care mandatory training topics; Nationally Recognised Training via our RTO);
- Benchmarking and continuous quality improvement;
- Onsite aged care pharmacist services.
Credentialed Pharmacist Solutions is a Section 90 PBS approved community pharmacy.
Our vision involves leading the sector in delivery of professional services that promote the safe and quality use of medicines. To achieve this, we work closely with care recipients, nurses, GPs and care providers and embed our support wherever Credentialed Pharmacists operate. This includes the residential, home and disability care sectors.
Credentialed Pharmacist Solutions is the leading employer of Aged Care Onsite Pharmacists in Australia. We are experts in nurturing the development of new-career pharmacists and cultivating that team member into becoming a genuine medication safety expert.
Credentialed Pharmacist Solutions pharmacist proprietor is credentialed pharmacist, Michael Bonner. Michael is also the sole owner of Choice Aged Care (Australia's largest RMMR/QUM/HMR service provider) and the Pharmacy Care Academy (the RTO provider of Australia's first accredited combined Aged Care Onsite Pharmacist and Medication Management Review training program).
The National Care Academy is dedicated to providing the best training to care and support workers in Australia. We have Registered Training Organisations in individual states to deliver Nationally Recognised Training as well as non-accredited and CPD training. Our key features:
✓ National training scope and multiple State based VET funding contracts.
✓ A ‘1-stop-shop’ RTO partner for larger multisite providers.
✓ RTO training/upskilling that aligns with a care provider’s staff skills mix & workforce strategy.
✓ We support large providers to deploy a streamlined workforce strategy that attracts and retains quality staff.
✓ The Skills Mix BUDDY workforce solution has been designed specifically with the strengthened Quality Standards and new Aged Care Act in mind.
✓ CRICOS approved to access the post-pandemic migrant workforce.
✓ Training that is contextualised to the organisation’s policies & procedures.
✓ Training delivered by embedded Pharmacist Trainers who are familiar with the facility, care workers, and rostering considerations.
Founded in 2018, Groworx is a premier global provider of innovative recruitment, training, and outsourcing solutions, specifically tailored for the healthcare industry. With a presence in Australia, Philippines,Singapore, India and Hong Kong, Groworx is dedicated to solving the critical challenges of skilled healthcare staffing by connecting providers with an unlimited talent pool of highly skilled and qualified healthcare professionals.
Groworx is best known for their recent work in solving the Aged Care workforce crisis in Australia. It's innovative FILO (Filipino International Labour Opportunity)Program, has already deployed nearly 500 workers across more than 25 cities in the program's first year of operation. They established the first Regional Care worker Regional Hub in Riverina NSW which has deployed nearly 100 workers with an estimated 500 over the coming 2 years. The impact of the program has been recognised by the Federal Minister for Health, the industry peak body ACCPA Rising Stars and all major media organisations, culminating in an in depth profile with the ABC's 7:30 report with over 1 million views of this achievement.
Ideagen help the quiet voices and safe hands that protect organisations to minimise risk, strengthen compliance and keep people safe. Ideagen CompliSpace, is a SaaS enabled solution helping organisations in highly regulated industries meet their governance, risk, compliance, and policy management obligations. This allows our customers to focus on providing the highest quality of service and care for those they serve. Ideagen CompliSpace supports thousands of Aged Care workers every day.
Touchstone Life Care’s (TLC) advance care planning software makes it easy for residential aged care and home care providers to create, store and retrieve advance care plans when required. From guiding staff in undertaking initial conversations with residents through to achieving one-click compliance for accreditation, there are numerous benefits for aged care providers who make the switch to the TLC digital solution.
TLC’s advance care plans are stored securely in the cloud and are instantly retrievable by QR code, giving aged care staff and medical personnel certainty about a consumer’s wishes, in a heartbeat.
As TLC advance care plans are digital, providers can trust that the most up-to-date version will be accessed, that it has been automatically shared with trusted contacts (like family, carers or GP), and that the plan won’t get lost in transit.
Bring person-centred, digital advance care planning to your organisation and deliver better service to consumers whose wishes will be instantly found.
Reduce stress and conflict with families because the consumer’s wishes are documented and shared.
Bring certainty to staff on what to do in emergencies, improve hospital relationships as you reduce unnecessary hospitalisations, and bring confidence to management that compliance obligations have been met.
Humanetix, an intelligent care management platform, has independently proven its ability to improve care delivery and save time in Australia. An independent study by the University of Canberra demonstrated that our system saved carers 20% of their time (Wiley, 2021), significantly relieving their busy schedules. This time-saving directly results in a 5X ROI for care providers (Deloitte Access Economics, 2014), reducing the burden on their resources.
Our globally patented AI-powered clinical care application is tailored for Aged Care clients in Residential Aged Care, Home and Community Care, and Retirement Living. Our flagship product, the ACE (Advanced Care Ecosystem) platform, is uniquely designed to enable providers to scale their care recipients as their needs and preferences evolve under a continuum of care. The ACE platform's decision engine enables informed decision-making and helps organisations improve their care plans and the quality of care they provide. This process ensures that care remains aligned with the evolving needs of the care recipient. We are also proud to have received recognitions locally and internationally, including the InnovationAus Awards for 'Software Innovation' in 2023, a testament to our platform's quality and innovation.
Book a FREE demo. Visit https://www.humanetix.com.au/#book-a-demo or call 1300 727 048.
RLDatix is a healthcare technology company and one of the leading international providers of workforce solution, risk and incident management solution, compliance and policy management with the aim of delivering safer care. We focus on supporting the operational and administrative needs of healthcare professionals across the health and care sector, including acute and aged care. We enable the delivery of safe and effective care at optimal cost, by helping organisations allocate the right people in the right place at the right time.
In Australia, our solutions support over 300 customers and over 300,000 healthcare workers. Some of our customers include NSW Health, most of the Victorian Public Health Services and an excess of 30 Aged Care and related services organisations across the states. We have achieved success in the market owing in great part to our customisable Award Interpretation capability, which automates payroll transaction processing for Australian industrial awards.
At RLDatix, we are on mission to help you increase your quality of care and reduce costs through our innovative software products and services which provide strategic decision makers with targeted insights.
Empowering Aged Care through Integrated Software Solutions
Camms provides integrated software solutions for governance, risk, compliance, strategy, and project management. Our modular approach allows aged care providers to manage risk, maintain compliance, implement a best-practice incident reporting process, and assure good corporate governance.
With over 25 years of experience, the Camms platform is trusted by aged care providers like Chorus, Kincare, Bankstown City Aged Care, Life Care, and Mercy Care to automate their governance, risk and compliance processes and facilitate a transparent, ethical operating model that enhances care.
The Camms platform can support aged care organisations in the following areas:
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Operational risk management – Create a risk register & set KRIs, automate the risk assessment process, monitor risk, set controls, use workflows for risk remediation, and easily report on risk exposure.
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Incident Management – Staff can easily log incidents online or via the mobile app. Automated workflows escalate the incident based on its type and rating and teams can fully document the steps taken to resolve the incident – providing s complete audit trail of events.
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Compliance & Audit - Build a comprehensive obligations library of relevant regulations, legislation, policies, and internal procedures. Implement a best-practice regulatory change management process.
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Disclosures, Feedback & Complaints – Implement an online portal for staff & families to log potential misconduct, instances of substandard care, or feedback and complaints. The platform can also be used for anonymous whistleblowing.
The Camms solution also offers best-practice frameworks to manage cyber risk, IT compliance, third-party risk, strategic plan.
MOA Benchmarking provides a comprehensive schedule of audits and surveys for self-assessment against ACQS, ARVAS, and NDIS standards, for almost 2,000 aged & community care, retirement living, and disability support services. We also provide collection tools, pre-submission data-quality checking services, and GPMS upload services, for over 1,100 RACs under the National Aged Care Mandatory Quality Indicator Program (NACMQIP).
Fully integrated Incident Management System (IMS), Plan for Continuous Improvement (PCI), and Policies & Procedures modules, provide an end-to-end Quality Management framework which allows organisations to foster a culture of continuous quality improvement, and ensure that every member of your organisation contributes to, and benefits from, a shared commitment to excellence.
Motiview by Motitech
Motitech is a Norwegian seniors technology company. Motiview was developed from a successful project by the Agency for Nursing Homes in Bergen to motivate people living with dementia to increase their physical activity for improved quality of life.
The Motiview global video library enables virtual travel around the world, around the corner, or down memory lane. Combined with adaptive training equipment, the system promotes physical, psychological, and social health. In 2018, Harbison was the launch customer for Motiview in Australia.
Road Worlds for Seniors - a unique World Cycling Championship
“…a model for innovative multidimensional programs in residential aged
care.” (Brookman et al., 2024)
Road Worlds for Seniors is the largest annual sporting event for seniors in the world, bringing almost 7,000 people in more than 250 teams from 10 countries together for a virtual month-long celebration of ability in 2023. Collectively, the teams completed 229,930 virtual kilometres, which is equivalent to crossing Australia 58 times.
Everyone who has participated in this signature Motiview event, held every year since 2017 (yes, even during the pandemic!), has felt like a champion and enjoyed the camaraderie and sense of achievement that comes from being involved in international competition.
In a collaboration between Motitech and Harbison, Motiview is now available to aged care providers and retirement village operators in Australia and New Zealand. Road Worlds for Seniors will run from 7 October to 1 November 2024. To find out more, visit motiview.com.au.
For over 45 years, Australian health professionals have trusted Therapeutic Guidelines as the leading point-of-care clinical resource. Developed by Australian experts, Therapeutic Guidelines is an independent, not-for-profit organisation fully funded by subscriptions. Licence options are available for single users, practices and clinics, or larger organisations.
StrongRoom AI is a medication management and patient drug adherence platform addressing the global challenge of effective drug management and adverse events, costing healthcare systems over $1 trillion and accounting for 20% of all hospital admissions and re-admissions.
Combining two generations of software & machine learning, we empower pharmacies, aged care, and hospitals to reduce adverse drug events.
StrongRoom AI was founded in a garage in 2017 with the idea of being able to use biometrics to match with peoples medical records.
Fast forward a few years, we are proud to be working with some of the most cutting-edge healthcare systems in the world to assist clinicians in reducing adverse drug events.
Our mission is to empower care-providers and clinicians with high-strength sophisticated tools to streamline workflows and enhance administration outcomes.
We exist to ensure patients receive the highest level of care, based on who they are and their specific needs, while safeguarding their data.
Our vision is a world where ADEs are a phenomenon of the past: In the future patients will receive the right medication at the right time, with zero errors and prevented negative drug interactions.
Powered by advanced analytics, we will harness AI to optimise drug administration so patients experience highly precise, fast, and effective care.
BESTMED is the leading provider of medication management systems to aged care homes in Australia.
BESTMED is an intelligent, transcription-free and easy-to-use software platform that reduces clinical risk, ensures compliance and assists our customers in meeting legislative and regulatory requirements, as well as provides for improved consumer care outcomes.
BESTMED creates a single resident record for the prescription, dispensing, packing and administration of medication. The record is paperless, real -time and transcription free to ensure that the right dose at the right time and by the right route.
As a cloud-based software, the medication record can be accessed at anytime, anywhere and from any device (whether tablet, desktop or mobile).
The prescriber has the freedom to instantaneously access and update resident charts and administration records at any time and from anywhere.
The aged care home, prescriber and pharmacy all work from a single source of data, allowing them to monitor and to respond to updates instantly.
Intelligent and automated workflows reduce errors from manual processes and align with the aged care safety and quality standards.
Our range of software and hardware solutions simplify and automate repetitive but critical tasks to reduce human error and drive efficiencies.
Aged Care homes and prescribers can access intelligent tools and reports to support clinical safety, compliance and governance on areas including polypharmacy, psychotropics, antimicrobials, PRN medications and National Quality indicators.
“BESTMED Australia’s favourite medication management solution”
Kinatico (ASX: KYP) is a leading provider of know your people solutions. Through its suite of Reg-tech SaaS solutions, Kinatico simplifies the daily process of managing compliance for organisations. By combining credential management and compliance data with policy, regulatory and legislative requirements, Kinatico solutions enable organisations to mobilise their workers and power insights for better, safer workplaces.
While organisations focus on opportunities, Kinatico connects you to insights that lift your capability and mitigate your risk.
Since 2004, Kinatico has leveraged their industry experience and market share to develop technologies that protect businesses and the people that support them. Kinatico has been the preferred provider of screening and compliance solutions for tens of thousands of businesses and government organisations. Our local team helps thousands of employers across Australia and New Zealand to make the most of their people, and their people to make the most of their day.
By using the latest cutting edge technology in Virtual Reality, NeuronsVR therapy is tailored for Aged Care and Dementia. Our core areas of focus include:
Lifestyle & Resident Wellbeing – Facilitating Meaningful Engagement
Offering immersive experiences such as armchair travel, animal therapy, and group activities to enhance residents' quality of life.
Clinical Integration – Enhancing Resident Care Plans:
Integration with resident care plans to address various clinical needs such as pain management (for wound dressing, blood pressure monitoring, etc.), insomnia, anxiety, and relaxation.
Memory Support – Addressing Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia (BPSD)
1-on-1 sessions for individuals living with Dementia and integration with a Behaviour Support Plan.
As leaders in medication management, Embedded Health Solutions (EHS) brings you innovative and comprehensive solutions that will improve the way medication management is delivered now and into the future.
At EHS, our talented team of professionals is passionate about reducing medication-related harm. We pride ourselves on clinical excellence, high-quality control standards and consistency across the RMMRs and QUM delivered to all our facility partners nationally. We achieve this through rigorous training for our pharmacists, mentoring, peer reviews, and professional development.
We understand the complexities and challenges faced by our partners; the residential aged care facilities and home care providers, aged care GPs, community pharmacies and of course the residents and their families, who are at the heart of the work we do. With our knowledge and experience, we provide clinical excellence and forward-looking services tailored to meet the evolving needs of these organisations and individuals.
OneTouch Health is a care management system that allows care providers to manage every aspect of their client’s needs, whilst achieving business critical efficiencies and continuous improvements in care quality.
OneTouch offers ultimate flexibility and freedom to its users. Manage all aspects of your business operations from directly within the OneTouch platform or integrate OneTouch with your existing software solutions using our open API. This ensures that your rostering, scheduling, care planning, reporting, HR and finance are all connected, and information can be shared simply and instantaneously across all stakeholders involved in an individuals care services.
If you provide home care, disability care, residential care, or retirement living services, OneTouch can help you!
The Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care develops and delivers policies and programs on health, aged care and sport.
The department is responsible for administering aged care legislation and developing policy to improve aged care in Australia now and into the future.
Many of the changes to aged care are in response to the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety. Our vision is to deliver the highest quality person-centred care for older people, where and when they need it.
To find out more and have your say about upcoming changes, visit AgedCareEngagement.health.gov.au or call 1800 318 209.