St. Luke’s Medical Center in the Philippines has gone live with the Sunrise™ electronic health record (EHR) platform from Altera Digital Health, marking its formal transition from paper to digital records.
St. Luke’s Medical Center is recognized as the leading healthcare institution in the Philippines and one of the most advanced hospitals in the world. The private hospital has more than 1,000 beds and manages over 48,000 admissions and 2.7 million outpatient consultations annually. Arguably the most advanced platform of its kind in the Philippines, Sunrise will be used across the centre’s Quezon City and Bonifacio Global City facilities.
A highly configurable solution with integrative capabilities, Sunrise is a comprehensive open platform that connects all aspects of care across the entire care continuum, complementing St. Luke’s patient-centered approach to clinical care. It is used by many of the leading hospitals and health systems in the APAC region, providing them with clinician-specific workflows, and adding support that can lead to improved clinical outcomes.
St. Luke’s is pleased to bring Altera’s Sunrise solution on board. This smarter, scalable technology can help deliver more responsive patient care. EHRs have increasingly been recognised for improving patient care and enhancing efficiencies in healthcare processes. The Sunrise platform’s support will enable St. Luke’s team to digitise data, streamline existing processes, and achieve further scalability while providing secure facilitation and management of patient records, supporting clinicians in delivering the best care possible to patients.
The adoption of Sunrise EHR can help St. Luke’s Medical Center evaluate the outcomes of its interventions and treatments for its patients. By digitising the complex processes of clinical care on the EHR platform, doctors and clinicians can collaborate and manage patients’ health records more effectively. Eliminating outdated, time-consuming administrative tasks, allows clinicians to better focus on contributing to more value-based care for their patients.
“At St. Luke’s Medical Center, we are enhancing patient care through the adoption of Altera’s Sunrise EHR platform. This advanced technology enables our clinicians to collaborate more efficiently, streamline processes, and maintain a strong focus on patient-centered care, all while securely managing health records,” said Dr. Dennis P. Serrano, President and Chief Executive Officer of St. Luke’s Medical Center.
Sunrise can also empower clinicians with clinical decision support functions, providing information to assist them in making the right decisions on medication for their patients and improving patient outcomes. Through its sophisticated connected medication management feature, doctors can leverage the platform promptly to check on their prescription’s proper dosing and any drug-to-drug interactions with their patients.
Using the Sunrise EHR platform, clinicians can get a unified view of their patient’s health records and better organise their care history while their patients are with St. Luke’s Medical Center. The platform can act as an information hub across the healthcare system, making it possible for clinicians to holistically review patients’ past notes and care plans, helping solve the problem of fragmented records that many patients with multiple care providers have.
“Altera Digital Health is heartened to have the opportunity to share the benefits of Sunrise with an esteemed healthcare institution like St. Luke’s Medical Center, and we look forward to supporting them in solving the information burden that many providers in the healthcare industry face,” said Todd Haebich, executive vice president, APAC.
“Our Sunrise EHR platform is designed with flexibility in mind, and we believe it will equip St. Luke’s Medical Center with the tools to optimise their digital processes to support their patient and clinician needs, paving the way for stronger and better care delivery, while better supporting healthcare practitioners’ workloads.”