In 1999 HST was awarded the contract to supply an integrated Hospital Information System for the Provincial Government of the Western Cape in South Africa.

Currently the system is implemented in more than 40 hospitals in the Western Cape including Academic, Tertiary, District and Regional institutions. HST provide the centralised operation platform for the system in accordance with the highest service levels.

The contract include the JAC Pharmacy System and this roll-out was started in 2007 at three Academic Hospitals and is currenrly operating in more than 80 hospitals and primary healthcare clinics.

TriMed is a modern, integrated management system catering for private and public hospitals, day clinics, multi-disciplinary medical practices and Primary Healthcare. TriMed incorporates rich functionalities of which the following is highlighted:

• Electronic PHR;
• Patient administration catering for In, Out and Emergency patients;
• Patient file tracking and reporting;
• Bed management;
• Revenue management with billing (all departments), cash receipting and debtors control;
• Electronic submission of claims (ESA) to Funders;
• Rapid Billing (Using barcode scanners to capture);
• Auto Accommodation Billing;
• Pharmacy dispensing with label printing, repeat scripts, manufacturing and linked items;
• Retail Pharmacy with Point of Sale (POS) and cash register interface;
• Comprehensive inventory management and purchasing (stock control);
• Case Management;
• Theatre scheduling;
• Patient care module to capture vitals;
• ICD-10 diagnoses and CPT 4 procedure coding;
• Observations and patient notes;
• OPD practice management incorporating registrations, bookings, and accounts;
• HIV/Aids, TB and chronic disease management;
• Reports and extensive management information;
• HL7 interface (Radiology, Laboratory, Bedside Monitors);
• Document Imaging Solution (DIS);

The major features of TriMed are as follows:

• Support for multiple hospitals, pharmacies and cost centres;
• Innovative and modern web-based technology – future-proofing your investment;
• Integrated solution using a single database for meaningful reporting;
• Easy to use and user-friendly – same look and feel technology for the whole enterprise (e.g. one patient number through-out);
• Realtime Help Screens;
• Easy to maintain and enhance – cost saving;
• Flexible design that caters for future needs and new reimbursement models;
• Interface for Radiology, Laboratory, Financial and HR Systems;
• Interface with Bedside Monitors and other Instruments.

InterSystems products supports over 3 million users in healthcare in over 100 countries across the world and more than two thirds of the US population is serviced by solutions operating on InterSystems Core Technology products.

Cache is a high performance, massively scalable object and SQL compliant database that is regarded as the world’s leading database for healthcare applications.

Ensemble has been voted as the world’s number one enterprise integration platform for healthcare.

ExaroHST has considerable experience in the incorporation of the InterSystems Core Technology products such as Cache, Ensemble and DeapSea as the system backbone.

HST  installations will in the foreseeable future exceed a total of over five thousand concurrent users, making HST the largest reseller of InterSystems Core Technology products in Africa.