Key messages
- Queensland Oncology On-Line-Victoria (QOOL-Vic) has been developed to support cancer multidisciplinary teams by assisting meeting preparation, communication, and documentation of essential clinical information such as diagnosis, cancer staging and recommended treatment plans.
- QOOL-Vic provides continuity of care and state-wide multidisciplinary team linkage and provides access to clinical outcomes and system performance data for quality improvement. The system provides a central view of patient data for multiple users, accessible at multiple locations. Multidisciplinary Meeting (MDM) teams can use QOOL-Vic to discuss patients and access that patient’s full MDM history; especially if they have previously been referred to another multidisciplinary team (MDT) that utilises QOOL-Vic.
- QOOL-Vic supports automated patient demographic information, pathology results, and communication to clinical stakeholders that improves meeting efficiency and quality of the data presented to clinicians.
QOOL-Vic is currently available to Victorian health services that conduct cancer multidisciplinary team meetings and provide treatment to referred patients.
Health services are welcome to contact the Department of Health for a demonstration of QOOL-Vic.
About the QOOL-Vic software
What is QOOL-Vic?
QOOL-Vic is the only Department of Health endorsed state-wide meeting software, it has been developed to support multidisciplinary teams by assisting meeting preparation, communication and documentation of essential clinical information such as diagnosis, cancer stage and recommend treatment plans.
QOOL-Vic provides continuity of care, state-wide multidisciplinary team linkage, and provides access to clinical outcomes and system performance data for quality improvement. The system provides a central view of patient data for multiple users, accessible at multiple locations.
Once a health service has implemented QOOL-Vic, any staff member will be able to create an account and access QOOL-Vic.
'QOOL has positively impacted MDMs in Queensland. QOOL provides a rich source of clinically relevant information about the patient for good multidisciplinary case conferencing and high quality decision making and supports access to expert specialist input in decisions about the patient’s care which are recorded. Even when the patient may be attending a regional location for treatment their case can be presented to a meeting with specialty tumour stream expertise in a metropolitan facility and the information is available locally as all sites using QOOL can share patients with other QOOL sites. The data collected has been driven by MDT clinicians and enables local reporting and comparison of clinical decision making to other teams in the state and published standards where available. QOOL has become a significant enabler in the care of Queensland cancer patients.'
A/Prof Euan Walpole
Medical Director, Division of Cancer Services, PAH
Cancer Stream Leader, Metro South Health, Queensland Health
‘QOOL-Vic allows users to be able to capture important clinical information about patients which can be used not just for MDT presentations, but also important for audits/clinical research’.
St. Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne
Frequently asked questions
For a complete list of Q&As please see the document below.
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