By Phil Boeyen, ShareChat Business News Editor
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Thursday 11th October 2001 |
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The company will provide the hospital with electronic patient record software. It is the third Australian dental training centre to agree to use the software - other customers are the Adelaide Dental Hospital and the Oral Health Centre in Perth.
"These three organizations collectively account for half of Australia's graduate level dental training facilities," says SOE chief, Paul Weatherly.
Mr Weatherly says Dental Health Services Victoria has also recently agreed to extend its use of the company's system to include fully electronic patient records at the 18 largest community health clinics in Victoria, with funding from a special state fund aimed at improving the delivery of government health services.
"Dental Health Services Victoria have estimated that if all community health clinics were using our electronic patient record software they would make operating savings of A$800,000 a year."
SOE says although its Enterprise division is clearly achieving market leadership in Australia, the general uptake of electronic patient records by private dentists remains well behind the uptake in New Zealand and the UK.
"We are continuing to sell software to private dentists in Australia and in the short term we have adjusted our cost structure in Australia to match the sales level we have been achieving.
"In the meantime the number of Australian dentists being trained on our system will continue to increase and this will position us well for when that market begins to follow the UK trend towards the use of clinical-based computing systems."
SOE's Enterprise division sells dental solutions to dental schools and public health providers and has announced a number of contract wins in the past year including customers in Singapore and the US.
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