Testimonials
Over the last decade, we have implemented significant upgrades to the IMgateway website. This, together with our commitment to provide the latest in evidence based information, has attracted an increasing number of members and site licenses to IMgateway.
The following groups and organisations now provide IMgateway access to their members-
- Australian Natural Therapists Association
- BioCeuticals FIT
- Bogong Regional Training Network
- Epworth Healthcare
- General Practice Training- Valley to Coast
- NH Labs
- Northern Territory General Practice Education
- Paramount College of Natural Medicine
- PathLab
- Slade Pharmacy
- The Prince Charles Health Services District
- Tropical Medical Training
- Victorian Metropolitan Alliance
- Wellpark College
- Western Australian General Practice Education and Training.
What some of our clients have to say about IMgateway-
Epworth Healthcare
Dr Allen Yuen, Director of Emergency Medicine
"It makes good sense, that clinical staff should have access to a resource like IMgateway which provides them readily with the authoritative and evidence-based information they need on complementary medicines, their uses and effects and their known interactions with orthodox western medicines. Having this information available, will hopefully encourage doctors to include alternative medicines whenever they ask patients about current medications, thereby leading to more adequate documentation and safer patient outcomes."
The Prince Charles Hospital Health Services District
Bernadette Sinclair (Nurse Manager, Quality Support Unit)
"Given the high use of Complementary Medicine (CM) in Australia and the progressive integration of CM with conventional medicine, medical, nursing and allied health staff need access to evidence-based information to assist decision making and to support better patient outcomes. IMgateway was selected because its content is evidence-based and kept up-to-date in accordance with a rigorous scientific methodology that meets the highest conventional medical standards. In addition, it comes highly recommended by experts in complementary medicine including Professor Marc Cohen."
Other benefits to staff and patients include:
- Reduced risk of herb-drug or supplement-drug interactions
- Reduced health care costs due to adverse events
- Improved quality of hospital care through the use of evidence-based CM
- Easy access to evidence-based information for the safe administration of CM
- Ongoing development of policies and procedures for CM usage within the District
- Staff with sufficient knowledge and confidence to provide appropriate advice about the safe use of CM
- Increased awareness of CM among health care professionals
- A technology platform that can be used to deliver CM educational programs for hospital staff and patients
This initiative is aligned with many aspects of the Queensland Health Strategic Plan 2004-2010.
Victoria Metropolitan Alliance
Dr Maria Lombardo (South West Regional Training Group Coordinator)
"There has been significant supervisor interest in learning more about complementary medicine particularly in relation to potential drug interactions which is also a concern for the registrars. In light of this it was felt that a subscription to a reputable complementary medicine website would be beneficial to both supervisors and registrars alike. In addition, many of our patients are using complementary medicines that they have either purchased themselves or been prescribed by natural medicine practitioners. Being able to access reliable information about these formulations and checking for interactions would be of use to us all". Dr Lombardo goes onto state that "IMgateway was recommended to us as the most useful and practical website to general practitioners by Professor Marc Cohen."
Australian Natural Therapists Association
Brian Coleman (ANTA Executive Officer)
"This exciting joint initiative is the result of our organisations' sincere desire to support health professionals in the provision of education and information resources in the fields of Natural Therapies and Integrative Medicine. Provision of this outstanding and unique online facility for ANTA members is the result of both parties strong desire to support health professionals and both ANTA and UnityHealth look forward to working closely together to continue to bring practitioners the latest information and up to date resources."