SURGbase Pty Ltd is an Australian business that specialises in improving audit processes in Australian hospitals. We design and maintain quality electronic tools that support surgeons and trainees in maintaining accurate data regarding their operative experience.

SURGbase is recognised by the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS) as an approved audit program, and is capable of generating the entire RACS expanded dataset. The RACS website remains the foremost source of audit information in Australia, and their publication, "Surgical Audit and peer review - A guide by the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons", remains the gold-standard of audit practice worldwide.

Our landmark product, SURGbase Enterprise, provides a workbench to audit operative interventions across all specialty groups. This software can replace multiple different audits within a Hospital, using datasets that can be tailored to individual College (and Hospital) requirements. Through using a single database to handle multiple different sub-specialty audits, IT resources can be better managed, updates scheduled, etc.

Doctors are being asked to do more quality assurance work in parallel with their clinical practice. SURGbase aims to make this work as simple as possible. We believe that the best time to enter audit data is 'live', entered by Users at the time of operative intervention, complication, or discharge. The alternative model, involving predominantly retrospective data-entry through clerical personnel is difficult to achieve without misinterpretation by non-medical staff. Pre-population using existing hospital resources is a focus for our development, and we have a proven track record at multi-site hospital networks, running enterprise-wise solutions.

SURGbase is also developing quality assurance software for individual surgeons and trainees that can facilitate 'private' audit. Our software already produces training logbooks for most surgical specialties, in a format that is consistent with the unique approaches undertaken by each College with regard to classification of operations and trainee experience. The development of the Web Logbook by RACS will see a shift towards electronic data handling, and place even more emphasis on reducing time-consuming double-entry of data. Our Trainee version of SURGbase will provide trainees with an electronic logbook that is compatible with hospitals using SURGbase.

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