Hercules Health

11/05/2026

How is productivity measured in Healthcare?

Aged care provides Healthcare for a growing population, with often an intense pressure to provide a person-centered focus for those who may or may not be able to express their own needs. Providing meaningful compassionate care in such situations reinforces the need for patience while each team member is under pressure to provide more care for more people with increasingly complex needs.

Digital systems which are fit for purpose and intuitive to use, are important as essential tools at the crossroads of time-poor aged care service teams and meeting the complex and often unstable clinical needs of those in their care.

Hercules Health INSIGHTS Dashboards are receiving strong endorsement from those using them. Not only do these Dashboards reflect health status of resident cohorts across a whole service, they also reflect areas of potential clinical risk and support workforce planning. They show where and when care team members are needed to align with the fluctuations in health presentation of residents in aged residential care.

Displaying clinical data in a way that shows clinical care needs is simply one of the tools we support our clients with to be more productive and more effective. I think back to my days nursing on the wards in acute settings, or leading care teams in aged residential care and marvel at what we can now achieve by bringing relevant data to guide care into this series of Dashboards.

The fun is also in exploring what else we can create to support this sector. Watch this space!!
New Zealand Aged Care Association - ACA Health New Zealand - Te Whatu Ora Health Quality & Safety Commission Te Tāhū Hauora

03/05/2026

Hercules Health - Aged Care software bringing your data to life!

Aged Care produces a vast amount of data during service provision but if that data isn't used for clinical care improvement through using the data to inform care decisions, it's wasted. Use Health Health Data Insights Dashboard to help guide you team in prioritising care services!

Hercules Health - Aged Care software brining your data to life!

03/05/2026

Data isn't for the finance team anymore!

Data is for informing and directing clinical care decisions and operational reviews. Clinical and service delivery data in real time is what leads to better health outcomes through increased visibility of health status.

See it - review it - share it - act on it! Aged Care is Health Care!

New Zealand Aged Care Association - ACA Health New Zealand - Te Whatu Ora Health Quality & Safety Commission Te Tāhū Hauora

24/02/2026

There are some things that are certain in aged care! One certainty is that Nurses have high workloads and shoulder the responsibility of clinical safety for those in care.

While data is only part of the information that guides care, alerts are helpful as reminders of aspects of service that need urgent attention and review.

The example below shows automated alert badges in Hercules Health which are designed to bring that information to the fore to draw attention to action required by nursing personnel.

New Zealand Aged Care Association - ACA NZ Aged Care Aged Care Quality & Safety Commission Health New Zealand - Te Whatu Ora

20/02/2026

Working in aged care has so many wonderful moments. My husband Gerard Gibb and I brought our 1926 Hupmobile up to Napier for Art Deco.

Nikki, Diversional Therapist at Taradale and Elmwood Masonic and I, when we visited as part of afternoon activities program. It was fabulous to drive in to be greeted by a large group of residents who told us we'd made their weekend. We also had the joy of the company of Julie Garratt and Greg Garratt , Founders of Medimap. A great chance to dress up and swap stories from days gone by...

New Zealand Aged Care Association - ACA NZ Aged Care New Zealand and Australia Aged Care Nurses

15/02/2026

It's great to see such interest in the data Insight dashboards covering a wife range of facility key indicators.. making meaning out of data.
New Zealand Aged Care Association - ACA NZ Aged Care Australasian College of Health Service Management - ACHSM Newzealand Aged Care Network Health New Zealand - Te Whatu Ora Te Tāhū Hauora Health Quality & Safety Commission

Around 125 aged residential care (ARC) facilities across New Zealand will begin implementing the Deterioration Early Warning System (DEWS) from April 2026, with all but one using digitised versions integrated into their resident management systems.

16/01/2026

Our older members of society deserve better. We know the longer people have to wait for assessment and intervention, after the presentation of their symptoms, the worse they can become and the longer their healing and recovery takes.

New Zealand Aged Care Association - ACA Health New Zealand - Te Whatu Ora

16/01/2026

Years ago, information was hidden among non-structured data fields, making it difficult to decipher and hindering its use in decision-making. No more!

In 2026 and beyond, gaining insights from data quickly and concisely is essential for all time-poor healthcare workforces. That's why Hercules Health has invested heavily in the development of real-time business intelligence dashboards and added alerts to indicate immediate workflows, at operational, quality, and care levels.

A range of use cases for data collected in the natural course of service provision is increasing, as structured data allows for live-time automated data analytics, and therefore exposure of trends and patterns to inform decision-making. This also means earlier responses to health status changes and better outcomes for not only residents in aged care but also the workforce caring for them.

New Zealand Aged Care Association - ACA NZ Aged Care The CARE Village Anna Blackwell Te Tāhū Hauora Health Quality & Safety Commission Dixon House Greymouth McKenzie Healthcare Nicki Gudsell

16/01/2026

If you're providing Retirement Villages Association NZ or Aged Care services, do you know what's happening? You can't effectively manage what you don't measure. Our recently added Insights Dashboards bring all relevant data into one easy to read dashboard.

With Hercules Health we help you keep up to date in real time with the Insights Dashboard and Navigation alerts. The data reported aligns with the Health Quality & Safety Commission Te Tāhū Hauora SAC scoring for mandatory reporting requirements.

We stick to the principle of making the system as intuitive as possible with a simple user interface. No need for lots of training, the system and our support team are here to guide your successful record keeping and monitoring of your service.

Newzealand Aged Care Network New Zealand Aged Care Association - ACA Cook Street Nursing Care Centre NZ Aged Care New Zealand and Australia Aged Care Nurses The CARE Village

31/10/2025

I feel a great deal of admiration for the wonderful example of leadership and passion for aged care always displayed by Andrea and her team at Queen Rose in Dunedin. Bringing sexy back to aged care.

New Zealand Aged Care Association - ACA