Beamtree

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Beamtree
Founded1996
Headquarters New South Wales, Australia
Key people
Tim Kelsey (CEO)
Website https://beamtree.com.au/

Beamtree (formerly Pacific Knowledge Systems) is a health data analytics company based in Sydney, Australia. [1] Tim Kelsey was appointed chief executive in December 2020. [2] Mark Britnell was appointed chair of the Beamtree Global Impact Committee in August 2021. [3]

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An international division was launched in the UK in 2021. The company funds an Associate Professor of Clinical Informatics and Data Science at the University of Sydney. [4]

Partnerships

Beamtree has a partnership with the University of Sydney. [5]

It formed a partnership with the Central Adelaide Local Health Network to implement the RISQ data quality product across the network of four hospitals. Likewise, it will also support clinical decision-making for pathology services and integrate the Ainsoff Index, which is used to detect deterioration in its early stage, into the electronic medical record. [6]

In March 2022, it set up contracts with four NHS hospital trusts in England to use its RippleDown decision support technology. The combined annual revenue is about £300,000. [7] It also has a five-year contract with Ampath for the RippleDown software which automates up to 90% of clinical interpretations. [8]

Acquisitions

The company acquired Ainsoff Pty Ltd, a clinician-led healthcare analytics company and Potential(x), an Australian firm that provides comparative analytics in 2021. [9] Ainsoff's founders Dr Levi Bassin and Dr David Bell joined the company.[ citation needed ]

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References

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