We're speaking at Southern Connections, Dunedin Town Hall, 29 July
Read moreCortex is your toolbox for clinical workflow
Do away with scribbled paper patient lists. Coordinate your team with tasks, documentation, and communication instantly synced to all team members in real-time.
Core Features
Everything your team needs to coordinate care in real time
Team Task Management
Empower your team with tools to manage and delegate tasks collectively - visibility of task status, ownership, and task discussions synced in real-time across the entire team.
Learn More...Clinical Documentation
Eradicate paper, and transform your workflows! Empower your team to design their own rich documentation and workflows.
Learn More...Team Communication
Conversations attached to patients, tasks, or documentation provide the full context needed to make decisions.
Learn More...Emergency Calls
Do away with obsolete paging systems. Modernise your MET and Code call management system with a smartphone and web-based solution integrated into the Cortex care coordination platform.
Learn More...Measured, not promised
What changed when Cortex was deployed across the interdisciplinary team.
- Average length of stay
- down 20%
- Readmissions
- down 12%
- Total bed nights
- down 15%
Independently measured by Lightfoot Solutions at Christchurch Hospital, New Zealand.
"Ward rounds have been transformed with decisions made and tests activated at the bedside in real time. I have not seen a comparable solution anywhere."
David Meates MNZM
Chief Executive, Canterbury DHB 2009–2020 · from the foreword to the Cortex Innovation Case Study
In production, at scale
Cortex runs day in, day out across Health New Zealand hospitals in Canterbury and on the West Coast, from tertiary and specialist care at Christchurch and Burwood to rural hospitals and community care.
- 2M+
- clinical tasks managed
- 16M+
- clinical documents created
- 1M+
- patient records
How It Works
Streamlined patient management and real-time updates
Patient Management Built Around How You Work
Cortex integrates with your hospital Patient Administration System to provide admission, transfer, discharge and demographic information.
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- Subscribe to location-based or team-based patient lists. Cortex manages these automatically, ensuring your lists are always accurate.
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- Follow a shared group of patients under different specialist care teams, such as Infectious Diseases or Pain Management Service.
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- Track specific patients to become part of their circle of care.
Subscribe to patient lists based on how you work
Join Consult Teams
Watch specific patients
Patient Updates
Get up to speed quickly on your patient's status from the patient timeline.
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- Clinical summaries and care plans are pinned for easy access enabling a quick overview of a patient's status.
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- Review clinical documents from doctors, nurses and allied health clinicians. Review task status, and check that orders have been created and sent, all from the Cortex timeline.
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- Cortex can integrate with your diagnostic results feed and push notifications to relevant clinicians on important or abnormal results. Clinicians can also subscribe to be notified of specific events in the patient journey such as completed ward round notes.
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- @mention other clinicians by name to notify them and draw attention to actions or results.
Living documents
Notes, Jobs & Orders at your fingertips
Information pushed to the right person at the right time
Alert other clinicians to actions
Circle of Care
Cortex provides instant access to all clinicians involved in a patient's care. The entire care team has visibility of clinicians' names, disciplines, clinical roles and availability.
What our customers have to say
"Cortex is one of the only pieces of IT introduced into the hospital in the last 5 years that has clearly made my life easier."
Chris Wakeman
Surgeon
Health NZ | Te Whatu Ora - Christchurch
"Cortex has fundamentally changed our department for the better. We're working smarter, quicker and more safely."
Saxon Connor
Surgeon
Health NZ | Te Whatu Ora - Christchurch
"If I took Cortex away today, my staff would be in tears!"
Dave Nicholl
Service Manager General Medicine
Health NZ | Te Whatu Ora - Christchurch