PRIMARY CARE SOFTWARE FOR ‘POPULATION TO PATIENT’ MANAGEMENT
Pen CS serves a portfolio of integrated population health solutions and clinical decision support that identify and address rising risks to help reduce costs, improve patient outcomes and increase provider satisfaction.
Pen CS works with Australian Primary Health Networks (PHNs), Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisations (ACCHOs), private, government and not-for-profit organisations, and research institutes.
Our eco system is valuable for research and to inform primary healthcare policy development and healthcare decision-making at local, regional and national levels.
ARE YOU PIP QI READY?
Pen CS’ Quality Improvement and PIP QI software solutions, CAT4 and Topbar, for General Practice are available from your Primary Health Network (PHN) or directly from Pen CS. To learn more ask your PHN or contact one of our friendly Account Managers.
“The Tools available are very helpful to practices and we enjoy seeing their satisfaction with using tools like CAT4.”
Jenaya Price, Brisbane South Primary Health Network
,“A large number of practices in our region have successfully installed CAT Plus and we have continued to purchase catchment wide CAT Plus software licences to support our practices to… improve the data quality as part of their accreditation and Digital Health requirements.”
Phil Edmondson, Primary Health Tasmania
,“Western Sydney Primary Health Network has worked closely with Pen CS over many years, from the establishment of Divisions of General Practice to Medicare Locals to date…and look(s) forward to continuing to work in partnership and collaboration into the future.”
Ian Corless, WentWest Limited
,“No errors were found in nKPI data extraction from Communicare using the CAT and subsequent submission to the qiConnect portal.”
Published by CSIRO in Australian Health Review,
“The Pen CS’ tool is invaluable in general practice today as the face of medicine changes. True comprehensive healthcare delivery requires an intensive focus on both diagnosing and treating diseases when they occur, therefore having good quality data and the Pen CS tool to extract that data helps us to focus on health promotion and disease prevention…”
Sharon Knight, Garden City Medical Centre
,“We appreciate and welcome future collaboration between Communicare and Pen CS to support our ACCHOs to Close the Gap in life expectancy between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians.”
Louise Lyons, Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (VACCHO)
,“QAIHC has a long standing working relationship with Pen CS. Over this period Pen CS has undertaken specific projects within the CAT Plus tools to improve Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders’ health outcomes.”
Matthew Cooke, Queensland Aboriginal & Islander Health Council (QAIHC)
,“Pen CS has become the preferred provider in the Primary Health Care sector in the areas of data extraction, population health analysis and reporting through its CAT Plus suite of tools, which include the Clinical Audit Tool, Topbar, and PAT CAT.”
John Gregg, National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (NACCHO)
,“There is no doubt that the future will include the hard wiring of reflection and analysis of data including benchmarking with peer practices. Pen CS have been ahead of the game and should be proud of its achievements.”
Dr Steve Hambleton, MBBS FAMA FRACGP(hon)

90%
of PHNS

5,700+
general practices

21+ million
patient population

12,000+
doctors
RESEARCH STUDIES
Pen CS working with Healthily and University of Melbourne to Increase Bowel Cancer Screening Participation
Pen CS is working with the University of Melbourne in a 'SMART-SCREEN' trial, focusing on bowel cancer prevention through increased screening via an...
Health Care Homes Trial Evaluation
Patient enrolment, data submission and clinical decision support for Health Care Homes trial employing CAT Plus software platform. Working with...
University of Sydney, QUEL
Quality improvement in primary care to prevent hospitalisations and improve Effectiveness and efficiency of care for people Living with heart...