Showcase - The Royal Women's Hospital - Victoria

The Royal Women's Hospital is Australia's largest specialist hospital dedicated to improving the health of all women and newborn babies.

The Royal Women's Hospital has implemented Catalys to fully manage all their competency assessment requirements for the organisation which currently consists of approximately 4,000 staff.





Case Study

The Royal Women's Hospital has provided health services to women and newborn babies of Victoria since 1856. The Women's is a public health service and is incorporated pursuant to the provisions of the Health Services Act 1988 (as amended).

The Royal Women's Hospital is principally accredited through its participation in The Australian Council on Healthcare Standards (ACHS) Evaluation and Quality Improvement Program (EQuIP).

Some of our services - for example, pathology and reproductive services - also undertake additional certification processes such as ISO 9002, the International Standards Organisation for Quality Management System 9000Catalys Assessment is used by The Royal Women's Hospital to deliver a full suite of competency management tools and reports across every level of the organisation.

Catalys Assessment allows The Royal Women's Hospital to distribute the assessment authoring and user management responsibilities whilst centralising the reporting for full organisational or inter-departmental comparisons and progress measures.

By using the Catalys Assessment software, The Royal Women's Hospital have revolutionised their efficiencies in the areas of assessment and competency reporting whilst providing full auditability to meet their legislative requirements.


Customer Expectations - When evaluating Catalys Assessment, The Royal Women's Hospital considered the following features as priorities:

Comprehensive data mining capabilities aligned with auditable trails complementary to legislative requirements.
Target training 'strength and weakness' assessment profiling to enable a more cost effective allocation of training resources.
Web browser based solution which is internet accessible
Scalability.
Targeted assessment data capabilities to enable personnel to remain productive whilst addressing training deficiencies.
Remote location access.