Brisbane’s QEII Jubilee Hospital has successfully trialed a new acute care assessment system developed by Finnish firm RAIsoft in association with the University of Queensland that promises to reduce the time nurses need to take when doing risk assessments on elderly patients on admission from up to two hours to 15 minutes.

The RAIsoft Acute Care system, which was launched at the Global Acute Care Excellence Forum in Brisbane earlier this year, reduces the critical information needed for a core assessment from between 150 and 500 data items to 60.