The clinical decision support hub for hospitals and health services

  • 77 hospitals in Australia and Canada
  • Evaluated by WACHS and UTS
  • ISO 27001 and 27017 certified
  • NSW Medical Devices Fund
  • Start-Up of the Year 2025

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77

hospitals live across Australia and Canada

21.8 pts

improvement in guideline compliance, in the WACHS and UTS evaluation

48.1s

average time to complete a pathway

Most hospitals do the work twice

First you ask staff to follow the procedure. Then, months later, you ask someone else to audit whether they did. Clinical Branches makes those the same act. The decision your clinician makes at 3am is the evidence your accreditation team presents in October.

01 Procedures into pathways and rules

  • Build it. Upload a procedure or guideline, and AI drafts the branches, endpoints and decision support hints.
  • Subscribe to a peer. Take what another health service has already built and validated.
  • Use platform core content. Expert-maintained and kept current for you.

Mix the three as you like. Whichever route, your governance team reviews and publishes.

02 Decisions at the bedside

Web and native mobile, working offline when the network does not. Calculators and approval codes sit inside the flow.

Safe, structured, fast decisions. Every key question gets asked, in 48.1 seconds on average.

Real time therapy change hints come from the pathway answers: creatinine spikes, nephrotoxin combinations, issues against the responses given, surfaced on the prioritised review list.

03 Trends tied to outcomes

Selections aggregate. Which branches are being taken, how that is shifting, and which lead to better patient outcomes, across the service and over time.

The prioritised review list points to patients who need attention, not to staff who need watching.

04 Evidence and benchmarking

Evidence mapped to the accreditation standards you report against, wherever you are, plus KPI dashboards built from real pathway decisions and clinician hint feedback.

OPT IN Compare results with your peer services when both parties opt in. Your data stays yours unless you choose to share it.

The loop runs on any procedure you put into it. Our strongest evidence so far comes from antimicrobial prescribing, where the pressure on decision quality and accreditation evidence is highest.

One platform, three very different wins

Clinicians, quality teams and executives want different things from the same platform.

ON THE WARD

It does not slow the round down

The right answer for this patient in 48 seconds, on the phone in your pocket. Calculations done, approval code generated, nothing to write up afterwards.

IN MEDICATION STEWARDSHIP

Audit as a by-product of practice

Rolling audit runs inside the workflow instead of as an annual campaign. Prioritised review lists come from automated therapy change prompts, and accreditation evidence accrues from routine use.

IN THE EXECUTIVE SUITE

You can finally see practice

Where your service decides differently from its peers, which procedures are actually being followed, and what to prioritise. Low-cost cloud, ISO certified, TGA registration underway.

What the WACHS and UTS evaluation found

A joint evaluation of the platform by the WA Country Health Service and the University of Technology Sydney, before and after implementation, against hospitals that did not adopt it.

20.8 pts

Prescribing appropriateness

Observed where the platform was adopted, against comparison hospitals in the evaluation's balanced sample.

21.8 pts

Guideline compliance

A fully staffed hospital stewardship programme averages about 15 points. This is the same gain without the headcount.

3,917

Audited prescriptions

Compared across three adopter and five non-adopter hospitals, alongside usage data from 68 health services and 30 clinician interviews.

What the clinicians in the study said

Quoted from the evaluation's clinician interviews. Participants are anonymised by the study. Square brackets replace the local deployment name.

At nighttime when you are dealing with a deteriorating patient, being able to get onto [Clinical Branches] and figure out how to broaden cover to cover sepsis with unknown origin or something is extremely, extremely helpful.
Resident medical officer Evaluation participant P09
I just use it for everything. Being in my 41st year of practice, I forget things far more than I did when I was younger. And also antibiotic guidelines change all the time, so I don't trust that what I did yesterday is the same as today's recommendations.
Rural practitioner Evaluation participant P05
[Clinical Branches] is targeted against you making a right antibiotic choice, and it cuts down on a lot of the extra waffle around that.
Prescriber Evaluation participant P03

Joint evaluation of the platform by the WA Country Health Service (WACHS) and the University of Technology Sydney Centre for Health Economics Research and Evaluation (UTS), funded by the Digital Health Cooperative Research Centre (DHCRC-0248), comparing prescribing before and after implementation. WACHS deploys the platform as AMPS. Two-way fixed effects difference-in-differences against non-adopter hospitals, adjusted for patient case mix, workforce composition, hospital characteristics and time trends. The prescribing quality estimates come from the evaluation's balanced sample of three adopter and five non-adopter hospitals, and describe an effect observed where the platform was adopted. Stewardship programme comparator: Davey P et al, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2017, CD003543. See the DHCRC project announcement, or read the evaluation snapshot (PDF).

What clinicians say

Clinical Branches gives us line of sight into which patients need us most. It helps us deliver smarter care, not just more care.
Sammu Dhaliwall Senior Manager Business Development, Research and Health Innovation, North West Telepharmacy Solutions
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.
John Zorbas Emergency Physician and Intensivist, FACEM FCICM AFAIDH
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 excellent. I highly recommend his team for your healthcare project.
David New Infectious Diseases Consultant, WA Health

Everything that runs on the loop

One platform, not four procurement exercises

AI-Assisted Pathway Builder

Upload a procedure, get a draft pathway. Drag-and-drop refinement, versioning and a review and publish workflow your governance team controls.

Web and Mobile Decision Support

The same pathways on the ward computer and on a native iOS or Android app, with calculators and approval codes built in.

Therapy Change Prompts

Automated clinical hints for creatinine spikes, nephrotoxin combinations, IV to oral switch and more, ranked so the highest-risk patient surfaces first.

Benchmarking and Evidence

Opt-in practice variation heat maps across peer services, evidence mapped to your accreditation standards wherever you operate, and KPI dashboards built from real decisions rather than samples.

And more beyond the loop

Specialist modules that run on the same platform, with no second system to stand up.

Bayesian Vancomycin AUC Calculator Free

Precision AUC dosing from Bayesian inference, included in every plan including Freeware.

Formulary Manager

Your formulary with restriction rules, scope of practice and a patient use approval system.

Safe Medicines Module

Generate and share MMPs, and surface medication risks at history taking.

Award-Winning Healthcare Innovation

NSW MEDICAL DEVICES FUND

NSW Medical Devices Fund Recipient

Awarded funding by the NSW Government Medical Devices Fund to support commercialisation, complete conformity assessment and expand the clinical pathway library across further clinical streams.

Clinical Branches was one of four medical technologies sharing $7.4 million in the latest round, announced at NSW Parliament in May 2026.

Read the NSW Government announcement
Recipients of the 2026 NSW Medical Devices Fund round photographed at NSW Parliament, including John Shanks of Kraken Coding
L-R: Minister Harris, Dr Darren Saunders (Chair), Dr Jerry Zhou (Amazing Gut), Secretary Susan Pearce, Tara Croft (Baymatob), Kim Sutherland (OHMR Executive Director), John Shanks (Kraken Coding) and Shan Shan Wang (Roam Technologies). Photo © State of New South Wales (Office for Health and Medical Research) 2026.
Healthcare Startup of the Year 2025

Winner Healthcare Start-Up of the year 2025

Winner of the ANDHealth and AstraZeneca Australian Healthcare Week 2025 Healthcare Start-Up of the year.

UNSW IHealthE Innovation Catalyst Award

UNSW IHealthE Innovation Catalyst Award Recipient

Awarded support by the UNSW Tyree Institute of Health Engineering to overcome key barriers in progressing stage 2 (machine learning applications) of the Clinical Branches platform

CUREator Minimising Antimicrobial Resistance Stream

CUREator Minimising Antimicrobial Resistance Stream Recipient

Recipient of the CUREator Minimising Antimicrobial Resistance stream, targeting the growing threat of AMR.

ANDHealth+

ANDHealth+ Portfolio Company

Selected for ANDHealth+, Australia's national digital health commercialisation programme, which supports evidence generation, regulatory readiness and market access for validated digital health companies.

Read the ANDHealth interview

Common Questions

Custom Contracts

No, we don't offer custom developments, we provide Clinical Branches only. If you need a new feature included just let us know though!

Data Residency

Australian data is hosted in Australia and Canadian data in Canada, on separate infrastructure for each country.

Client References

We can connect you with reference customers who are happy to share their experience. Request a demo to learn more.

Take the loop to the bedside

Clinical Branches is now available on iPhone, iPad and Android, so pathways and calculators work where the network does not.

Close the loop in your service

Show us one procedure your staff struggle to follow. We will build it into a pathway and show you what it generates back.

Contact Information

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Enterprise-Grade Security and Safety

Healthcare-approved security and quality compliance standards

ISO 27001 ISO 27017 CSA STAR OWASP

ISO 27001 & 27017

International cybersecurity standards

CSA STAR Level One

Cloud security assurance

OWASP Top 10 Compliant

Web vulnerability protection

Australian Privacy Act

Data protection compliance

Clinical Branches has been approved through independent cybersecurity assessments by health services across Australia and Canada. Data is encrypted in transit and at rest, security audits are conducted annually, and the platform is routinely penetration tested.