About
About Kraken Coding and Clinical Branches
We are an agile health technology company utilising actively working clinicians to ensure we maintain a strong connection with the coal face.
We firmly believe if you don't use it you lose it, and are probably one of the few health tech companies who still regularly work as practicing clinicians.
Clinical Branches is the result of decades of combined experience in healthcare, leveraging heavily on lessons learned from the open-source antimicrobial stewardship project (read more below).
Clinical Branches is the first cloud platform to provide an Electronic Medical Record (EMR) agnostic medium to share complex decision support processes, with the overall goal to reduce healthcare associated complications, improve resource sharing between healthcare providers and reduce staff burnout.
This is performed via three components:
- The pathway building and sharing canvas - provides frontline staff capacity to build and share complex decision support processes to replace text-based guidelines. These convert instantly to a single page application for use by clinicians. The pathways improve information retrieval time, greatly reduce the risk of error and reduce overall daily cognitive load.
- System agnostic clinical intervention identification (dynamic ward lists) - provides a wrapper for EMRs which can perform complex "at risk" patient identification via imports from any record. Rather than siloing rules across state lines and between EMRs, these are shared openly. Ongoing use of the intervention platform feeds metadata into the system which pattern matches potential complications based on shared characteristics. Positive and negative reinforcement is built into workflow to refine the algorithms.
- The Clinical Credits system - Tying both decision support rule and pathway development is a credit system to promote cross institution collaboration. It opens dialogs across health services which would otherwise be siloed because they are in separate states or using different EMRs. Rural and metropolitan staff can all share insights on the same common platform.
Australian Hospitals are currently implementing Clinical Branches
Australian Hospitals are currently using Clinical Branches
Decision Support Pathways are currently available for subscription within the Clinical Branches hub
Treatment Endpoints have been custom designed with ongoing input from Australian clinicians
Australian Residents are supported by Clinical Branches for their acute health care
Customer Testimonials
Testimonials
John Zorbas
Emergency Physician and Intensivist, FACEM FCICM AFAIDH
John and his team have been great to work with. They're incredibly responsive and easy to deal with, bringing changes online rapidly. They're fantastic to work with on customisations specific to our clinical needs.
Yvette Clarke
T for Thomas
John and his team were incredibly talented designers and animators and a pleasure to work with. John listened to my ideas, asked questions about what we needed accomplished and made sure to understand my goals before getting to work. I could not be happier with the outcome.
David New
Infectious Diseases Consultant. WA Health
I have worked with John for three years developing and refining an electronic web-page based antibiotic approval system for the general hospital I work for. The process has been stress free, professional and the end product has been (and continuous to be) excellent. John and his team continue to provide support. I highly recommend his team for your healthcare project.
Clinical Branches
About Clinical Branches
(contact info@krakencoding.com if you need a login)
The use of clinical pathways and electronic clinical decision support tools are both associated with improved patient outcomes. The Clinical Branches premise is to provide healthcare administrators with a user friendly method of creating web based clinical and administrative workflows for use in a hospital or clinic.
Awards for our team's work
Winner of the 2023 NT Digital Innovation of the Year Award
Awarded the Department of Industry, Tourism and Trade Innovation of the Year for 2023
Winner of the 2022 'Croc Pitch' competition
Winner of the 2022 croc pitch competition for development of the Clinical Branches decision support pathway platform
Finalist in the 2023 Australian Healthcare Week Rising Star Startup of the Year
Finalist in the 2023 rising star startup of the year competition at Australian Healthcare Week 2023 for in-hospital solutions.
Winner of the Chief Ministers Award for Excellence
Awarded the NT Chief Ministers award for excellence in the healthcare field 2017 by establishing an electronic medication to pathology linkage and associated clinical recommendations tool
- Demonstrated clear service innovation
- Demonstrated clear improvement post implementation
Winner of the Northern Territory Top End Health Services Service and Innovation Award (2018)
Winner of the 'Doing Things Right' category for service innovation.
The Open Source Antimicrobial Stewardship (OSAMS) application has demonstrated clear reductions in broad spectrum antimicrobial usage, improved switch to oral times and has demonstrated excellent results in staff feedback surveys, ranking as the most clinically useful and useable application in one staff survey of clinical applications used.
Nomination for Exemplary Clinical Practice by the Australian Commission for Safety and Quality in Health Care
In 2021 the OSAMS project was nominated for exemplary clinical practice by the assessors from the Australian Commission for Safety and Quality in Health Care. The accreditation review found that the application was:
- Widely used by the clinicians surveyed
- Linked to observable improvements in antimicrobial prescribing
Previous projects
- All
- Mobile Application
- Animation
- Web Application
In an organisation employing thousands of workers, a dedicated privacy team cannot effectively audit all access to patient medical records. Octowatch provides intelligent rules and machine learning to identify potential data breaches within big healthcare data sets.
KRAKEN CARE WARDLISTS
Application status: OFFLINE
Click to view scratch environment Click to view project overviewIn an organisation employing thousands of workers, a dedicated privacy team cannot effectively audit all access to patient medical records. Octowatch provides intelligent rules and machine learning to identify potential data breaches within big healthcare data sets.
The Australian Physiotherapy CPD (continuing professional development) Recorder is a tool designed for physiotherapists to easily record their CPD and professional development plan.
OSAMS is an open source freeware project aiming to provide improved clinical decision support and approval for antimicrobial management.
Please note, Kraken Coding have facilitated support and maintenance for the project previously, however users are not required to utilise Kraken Coding services to use the open source files.
The Australian Pharmacy CPD (continuing professional development) Recorder is a tool designed for pharmacists to easily record their CPD and professional development plan.
CAUSP is a 'Community Antimicrobial Utilisation Surveillance Program' which monitors antimicrobial usage and resistance rates for Central Australia.
Is it Sepsis? Is a community health information animation developed for the T for Thomas Foundation
An application for management of individual patient use submissions for a hospital formulary
F.A.Q
Frequently Asked Questions
Are you available for private contracts?
We do not provide services for developing bespoke applications. However, if there is a genuine need for a feature within the Clinical Branches framework then we would be more than happy to develop a module for your request.
Our institution is hesitant to use cloud based solutions. Can the Clinical Branches platform be hosted internally?
No, to fully utilise the platform it requires communication between different institutions to share pathways and share ideas. For this reason we cannot host the Clinical Branches application on a private server. We only house data in Australia on IRAP / ISO 27001 / SOC 2 compliant servers, Kraken Coding hold CSA STAR 1 attestation and ISO 27001 certification.
We can support implementation of the platform for remote locations or deployments with intermittent internet connection, however to receive updates and to sync with the main database tablets or laptops would need to reconnect to the cloud periodically.
Can we speak to clients currently using your software solutions?
Yes definitely, we can provide referees actively using any of our applications, or can provide the names of Health Services currently using our software if you would like to conduct your own independent check.
We are an agile and responsive company, and we are confident that all users of our applications will agree that we are fast to respond and proactive in improving the product based on our own experiences or feedback from others.
Contact
Contact Us
Mailing Address
PO Box 40431 Casuarina NT 0811
Email Us
info@krakencoding.com
support@clinicalbranches.com
Call Us
(08) 7918 5085