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Australian & New Zealand College of Anaesthetists: Training accreditation made easy.

Revium designed and implemented a fit-for-purpose web application for the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists' accreditation process. The key to Revium's success was utilising user-centred design, user experience planning and undergoing prototyping, before building the application using the Microsoft .Net framework.

Overview

The Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (ANZCA) is the professional organisation for over 6000 specialist anaesthetists (Fellows) and 1500 anaesthetists in training (trainees). The Training Accreditation Committee (TAC) is responsible for ensuring that facilities providing training for trainees of the College are accredited.

Challenge

ANZCA engaged Revium to design and implement an online Training Site Accreditation (TSA) system to manage information relating to the accreditation of training sites. Up to that time the accreditation process was mostly a manual process, capturing data in Excel, writing reports in Word and storing these files together with related documents in a file system.

The following objectives were identified for the solution:

  • Provide single, central repository of all information relating to the accreditation of training sites

  • Provide a web based, robust and sustainable system

  • Provide flexibility to allow changes to data sheets and questions

  • Support multiple stakeholders with user roles and permissions

  • Integrate with iMIS membership system and pre-load data where possible

Solution

Revium designed and implemented a fit for purpose web application to suit the ANZCA accreditation process. Considerable time was spent on working through the user interface, the functional requirements and the various options for scalability.

Our UX team prepared interactive prototypes of the key screens, which were reviewed and validated with stakeholders. The system was built in .NET C# based on the .NET Membership framework.

HTML 5 features were used to enable the provision of a global web-based solution with capabilities to perform in any environment, including offline. The application was built as a responsive design and appropriate for any device and recent browser version.

The foundation release covered the following features:

  • Responsive design to allow user to access system via tablets

  • Dashboards specific to user types

  • Multiple step form covering a large number of questions of various types for both training site user and visitor.

  • Workflow to manage accreditation records to completion via several users and statuses.

  • File upload facility with complex permissions for view, edit and deletion of files

  • Seamless integration with the ANZCA membership system (iMIS).

  • Locking of form sections to allow multiple users accessing an accreditation record at the same time.

  • Capability to maintain question labels, descriptions and help text

  • Audit logging each time an accreditation record is created or updated

  • Reports and data download

Outcome

ANZCA has received a lot of positive feedback from users of TSA. Users rate the user interface highly and are delighted to have all information at hand via a tablet instead of a large amount of printed paper. Managing accreditations has become a lot easier and less time consuming for all parties involved, administrators, training site staff, inspectors and committee members.

The system assists ANZCA in delivering an accreditation process that is structured, consistent and transparent. Data captured not only supports individual accreditations, but also provides a source for management data and further automation of the accreditation process, such as scheduling.