In practice, these gaps consistently affect five critical areas in a gynaecology department:

1. Gaps in a patients journey through a particular sub-specialty such as colposcopy. (e.g. an occasional missed result, a missed follow-up or important missed correspondence).

2. Gaps between the clinical information recorded and real-time metrics required by management to effectively monitor and manage capacity, waitlists, staffing and targets etc.

3. Gaps between related encounters within the gynaecology department (e.g. the full details of previous encounters are often not intuitively located or clearly visible). This is more common between gynaecology sub-specialties, and impact directly on the efficiency and quality of subsequent encounters.

4. Gaps between gynaecology services and central hospital systems, where clinicians in other settings may not appreciate the significance, or even be aware of prior gynaecology encounters without concise, immediately available notes.

5. Gaps between gynaecology services and third-party stakeholders, including cervical screening registers, oncology registers, and national research programmes resulting in incomplete data requiring extensive data cleansing.

   
   

These are seldom complete workflow breakdowns; information generally flows, but not always completely, consistently, or quickly enough for when it is required.

The Consequences. When accurate, complete information is not available at the precise time required, the whole system is impacted through slower diagnosis and treatment, increased clinical risk and increased cost and time. Combined across multiple areas these gaps result in unnecessary costs and avoidable pressure on clinicians, their support staff and management.

If these gaps are allowed to remain within the gynaecology department the results can be slower delivery of care and longer waiting lists, frustrated and overworked clinicians resulting in potential burnout, and significant unnecessary costs for the health system.

The Solution. Removing the gaps and strengthening connections is achievable with a clinician-and patient-centred platform designed specifically for gynaecology. Built-in workflow management ensures failsafe monitoring of each sub-specialty, while structured, always-visible records link related encounters across the whole service.

The platform delivers immediate, standardised clinical notes in the EMR for all stakeholders and automated, compliant integration with third-party systems including screening registers and oncology databases. Clinicians remain closely involved in design, ensuring workflows are proven, refined and continuously improved in real-world settings. Structured records also enable intelligent tools including advanced searching, custom reporting, data analysis, dashboards and AI to turn data into meaningful clinical and management insight.

By routinely capturing standardised, structured clinical data and presenting it through real-time, audit-ready charted metrics and meaningful presentations, Gynaecology Plus drives on-going quality and efficiency improvements in gynaecology departments and practices.

This transformation does not require a major or disruptive technology project. By strengthening the entire patient journey, gynaecology services can streamline care pathways, reduce risk, and deliver more efficient, connected women’s healthcare.

Gynaecology Plus was built to close the in-between gaps and strengthen the Connections

Gynaecology Plus was first developed 25 years ago to close a critical gap between public colposcopy services and the newly established National Cervical Screening Programme. Since then, it has continually evolved with a singular focus: closing the many in-between gaps that exist within individual sub-specialties, between sub-specialties, between public and private care, and between gynaecology services and central hospital systems and third-party stakeholders.

Developed in close collaboration with gynaecologists across New Zealand and Australia, Gynaecology Plus supports a wide range of subspecialties including colposcopy, hysteroscopy, endometriosis, general gynaecology and surgery, termination of pregnancy, early pregnancy assessment, and gynae-oncology. Each module is designed to optimally support its sub-specialty, while also unifying all sub-specialties into a single, integrated environment that integrates seamlessly with hospital and external systems.

While individual modules such as colposcopy can eliminate the gaps within a single subspecialty and fully connect that service to its EMR, only the full Gynaecology Plus suite can close all the gaps that matter most, those that deprive clinicians’ access to complete, timely information across a patient’s current and past care journeys with a highly positive cumulative impact.

Rolling out the full Gynaecology Plus suite is not a technology upgrade. It is a very robust clinician-designed structural solution that fixes system weaknesses by closing all of the gaps across gynaecology care pathways. By closing the gaps Gynaecology Plus ensures complete information always appears when needed, transitions are reliable, and the patient journey is genuinely connected.

Practical, affordable, and easily within reach, this is where a meaningful transformation in women’s health begins.

For a short demonstration of how departments and private practices are saving time and cost daily, or to learn more, please get in touch.

Gynaecology Plus is a proud sponsor of the ASCCP.