Aged care data analytics and advisory service Mirus Australia and aged care software management system Management Advantage have joined forces with an aim of delivering greater value to aged care providers.
The new partners aim to achieve this by integrating the 30-year legacy of ManAd’s system – which is designed to simplify complex processes and support regulatory compliance – and Mirus Australia’s focus on funding, workforce, accommodation tools, and advanced analytics.
The ManAd brand will be integrated into Mirus Australia over time with a focus on ensuring continuity for customers, seamless service delivery and enhanced solutions for current and future clients. ManAd chief executive officer Peter Staples – a former federal aged care minister – will become a member of the board of the merged entity.
The new partners launched the evolution of their combined technology with a new platform – Mirus Plus – at the ITAC conference in Melbourne last week, where Australian Ageing Agenda asked about the reasons for coming together.
Mr Staples said ManAd’s customers were at the centre of the partnership and that he was confident the deal would ensure continued support and innovative tools for providers.
“There needs to be a connection of data management systems, clinical management systems, and other aspects of data,” Mr Staples told AAA. “From data you get information. Information you have to work out what to do with it and how to improve aged care.”
The foundation of the partnership is a shared vision of empowering aged care providers through innovation, added Mirus Australia founder Robert Covino.
“This is about two brands, one being the clinical and quality side, the other being the data, innovation side coming together to support the sector as two sovereign companies owned, capital, everything onshore in Australia,” he told AAA.
The two companies intend to use data, technology, artificial intelligence, and industry insight to provide a robust suite of integrated tools designed to meet aged care providers’ challenges.
Home care is one of the areas targeted for a stronger focus going forward, as providers are raising a lot of concerns about the support at home, said Mr Covino.
“With home care, we still have a moving goal post, so we’re assessing, we’re watching, we’re collecting feedback from a lot of the vendors and providers about where their concerns are,” he said.
Owen Matheson – CEO and founder of Aligned Equity – helped bring the two organisations together after identifying two evenly matched cultures of strong family environment and building products they believed in while at last year’s national aged care conference in Adelaide.
“One of the things that stood out for me with Peter and ManAd is they literally call their clients every two months to make sure that they’re across all of the regulatory changes and that the product is now supporting them with those change. And so they’re working hard behind the scenes to make sure their clients don’t miss anything,” Mr Matheson told AAA.
“In a similar way, Rob and his team are looking at the horizon and trying to translate what could be critical events and implications for them into practical solutions to help hand hold them through.”
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