Adcock Ingram Integrated Report 2018

NEW AUTOMATED PERITONEAL DIALYSIS SYSTEM LAUNCHED IN SOUTH AFRICA Providing remote patient management for doctors and their patients at home CASE STUDY This year has seen the Critical Care division, in conjunction with Baxter, introducing the Homechoice Claria automated peritoneal dialysis (APD) systemwith the Sharesource remove patient management platform. This is the first and only two-way, telehealth machine to support home dialysis therapy. The system delivers important and accurate patient treatment information to healthcare professionals, allowing for more timely and personalised care as clinicians can now review patients’dialysis sessions without seeing the patients. This unique system is designed to be more intuitive for patients to operate in their home and while travelling. Thanks to this feature, patients don’t have to keep journals and clinics don’t have to bother creating reports from those journals, since all that is done automatically. Testimony from an employee “ Today I had the privilege of training a very courageous and amazing young lady, Sibonile and her Mother Phindiwe Jose.” Sibonile was diagnosed with Cystinosis just after her first birthday. Trying to lead a normal life as a toddler and teenager took major strain on the family. After a couple of years her parents got divorced and the entire responsibility was on the shoulders of her Mother, Phindiwe. Between being a Grade seven English and Science teacher in Somerset East, Phindiwe’s life is the centre of Sibonele existence. They are inseparable and depend on each other for inspiration, assistance, faith and existence. The morning was spent training both Phindiwe and Sibonele on the new Home Choice Claria machine at the Adcock Ingram offices in Port Elizabeth. Sibonele was struggling with the previous automated peritoneal dialysis (APD) machine, with error codes etc., so in the last couple of months she could not complete a full peritoneal dialysis (PD) cycle at night. With the new Home Choice Claria, both patient and Professor Freerck from Livingstone will get a clear indication on Sibonile’s treatment on a daily basis. This alsomakes the frequent trips to Livingstone in Port Elizabeth easier as the doctor is now able to view Sibonele profile on a daily basis from his practice and can make the necessary changes without Sibonele visiting the Livingstone PD unit. Visits can now be done on a monthly basis as Sibongele lives in Somerset East, approximately a two-hour drive from Port Elizabeth. Sibonelematriculated at Gill College in 2017 and is currently studying Business Management. She has completed three of her fivemodules for 2018 and hopes to continue her studies throughUnisa in 2019. ”– Shinene Posthumus Whata privilege to be partof such a huge eventin South Africa The firsttwo patients were startedon Home Choice Claria andSharesource They hadno problem to consentto the change justhadsmiles and excitement Maretha Schoeman – PD Nurse trainer. ADCOCK INGRAM  Integrated Report 2018 31