About

About Clinical Branches

  • Clinical Branches is an EMR agnostic decision support hub which converts text-based procedures, guidelines and tired old ward lists into intelligent digital decision support tools, which allow clinicians to make the right decisions quickly.
  • All clinical decision support is shared on the hub to collaborate over a shared medium, regardless of your size, or whether you use an EMR. You subscribe to the decision support which is a good fit for you (or use the CDS canvas to build your own).
  • The tool works on the premise 'If you make it easy for clinicians to make the right decisions quickly, then you will see changes in behaviour'. As such, Clinical Branches boasts an average of 48.1 seconds information retrieval time.
  • Routine pathway use generates rich data which can then be coupled with EMR data to prioritise and support clinical teams with greater granularity than using EMR data alone.
  • Data gathered from routine use of the platform auto-generates dashboards to support KPI reporting and quality improvement activities generating evidence for hospital accreditation.
  • Clinical Branches is available for use by any health service with a freeware and 'paid premium' offering to support any budget.

Hospitals are currently implementing the full version of Clinical Branches

Hospitals are currently using the full version of Clinical Branches

Decision Support Pathways are currently available for subscription within the Clinical Branches hub

People are supported by the full version of Clinical Branches for their acute health care


Treatment Endpoints have been custom designed with ongoing input from Australian clinicians

Hospitals are currently utilising, testing or implementing the freeware version of Clinical Branches

People are supported by the freeware version of Clinical Branches

Organisational Value Calculator

Estimate the value from implementing Clinical Branches


Source: AIHW

See this paper for the rationale for the 18%, or if you have access to your service's rate of infectious disease admissions please update the value

Source: Medication-prescribing errors in a teaching hospital. A 9-year experience (feel free to replace this percentage with your local inappropriate prescription rate)

($4,680 is the average cost per OBD in Australia, please update with your service's specific OBD cost if available)

Results

Customer Testimonials

Testimonials

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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?

Yes and no, to fully utilise the platform it requires communication between different institutions to share pathways and share ideas. We can certainly place the platform on a private server and have a private database, but we will also need to access the platform content repository which must be shared. 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 and are undergoing ISO 13485 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.

Alternately, just get in contact with us and try it out for yourself.

Contact

Contact Us

Mailing Address

PO Box 40431 Casuarina NT 0811

Email Us

info@krakencoding.com

Call Us

(08) 7918 5085