Amalga

Hospital Groups

Grow the group. Not the complexity.

What you establish at one hospital should give the next a head start. Create common ways of working across the group, while keeping the differences each hospital genuinely needs.

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What works as local flexibility can become complex across ten hospitals.

When each hospital starts with its own requirements, configuration and workflows, the differences accumulate.

Implementation work gets repeated. Rollouts take longer. Staff moving between hospitals encounter different ways of working. Information is captured differently. Comparing performance across the group gets harder.

As the group grows, the decisions already made at one hospital should make the next implementation easier.

Build once. Roll out across the group.

Turn the first rollout into a head start for the next.

  • Establish the core system and workflows at the first hospital in around four to six months, rather than heavy year-long projects.
  • Use that work as the starting point for each hospital that follows.
  • Bring subsequent hospitals onto Amalga in around two months, depending on scope, integrations and site requirements.
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Standardise 80%. Adapt 20%.

  • Establish common workflows for the work hospitals share.
  • Adapt for differences in services, processes and local requirements.
  • Keep customisation for where it's needed.
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Share infrastructure. Keep each hospital’s data separate.

  • Choose to share hosting, network and hardware across the group, and the cost that comes with them.
  • Give each hospital its own Amalga instance, database and URL, so its private data stays separate.
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See across the group.

  • Capture information more consistently across hospitals.
  • Compare activity and performance on the same measures.
  • See where hospitals are operating differently and decide whether that difference is intentional.
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Bring each hospital on with the systems it already has.

Hospitals in the same group rarely start with the same technology. One may run its own laboratory system,another a finance platform the group wants to keep.

Amalga connects to them through HL7, FHIR and APIs. Each new hospital joins the group’s common workflows while the specialist systems around it stay in place.

A first hospital built to be the starting point for more.

Sun Group International Hospital in Phu Quoc went live on Amalga in six months. The next Sun Group hospital followed in two months, building on the work already done at the first.

"Our partnership with Amalga represents the next leap forward in healthcare innovation for Vietnam. It’s a union of Vietnamese ambition and New Zealand expertise – setting the foundation for a nationwide network of smart hospitals built around patients and people."

Nguyen Chi Thanh

Vice Chairman, Sun Group

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months to go live at the first hospital
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months to go live at the next hospital

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FAQs about how Amalga works across hospital groups.

How does Amalga work across a hospital group? +

Amalga allows hospital group to establish common workflows at its first hospital and use them as the starting point for each hospital that follows. Each hospital has its own database and URL, keeping its private data separate while sharing hosting, network and hardware. Workflows can still differ where an individual hospital genuinely needs to work differently.

How long does it take to introduce Amalga at another hospital in the group? +

A first Amalga hospital implementation typically takes around four to six months. Once the group's core workflows, configuration and integrations have been established, a subsequent hospital can typically be introduced in around two months, depending on scope, integrations and site requirements.

The next hospital starts from work already completed rather than repeating the implementation from the beginning.

Can hospitals in the same group have different workflows? +

Yes. Amalga's approach is to standardise around 80% of hospital workflows while adapting the 20% that genuinely needs to differ because of services, processes or local requirements. This gives hospital group consistency where it matters without requiring every hospital to operate identically.

Does every hospital in a hospital group need to use the same Amalga modules? +

No. A hospital group can establish common ways of working across its hospitals while introducing different Amalga capabilities where individual hospitals need them. Hospitals do not all have to change at the same time or in exactly the same way.

Can Amalga integrate with different systems at different hospitals across the group? +

Yes. Amalga supports HL7, FHIR and APIs and can integrate with existing clinical, diagnostic, financial and specialist systems. This allows a hospital group to create more consistent workflows while retaining systems that still meet the needs of individual hospitals.

Make rolling out the next hospital easier than the last.

See how what you’ve standardised at one hospital becomes the starting point for the next.

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