About ARCHI

What is ARCHI?

The Australian Resource Centre for Healthcare Innovations (ARCHI) is an information service for health professionals. It promotes the dissemination of resources related to innovative health care delivery both in hospitals and across the community. It also provides access to a network of health professionals. This is achieved through the web site, an enquiry service, seminars, a newsletter and discussion groups. These services are provided to save time and to help our clients avoid 'reinventing' the wheel.

Who runs ARCHI?

ARCHI is funded by its members and the infrastructure is supported by NSW Health as part of their commitment to knowledge sharing.

Membership is by subscription and members includes Australian state health services, area health services and hospitals in Australia and New Zealand as well as professional health and commercial organisations and individuals.

Our mission

The ARCHI mission is to support and increase the implementation of effective and quality innovations in clinical care in Australian healthcare settings and at the interface of hospitals and other healthcare providers.

ARCHI aims :

• To collect and collate information on quality innovations in acute care and other related settings.
• To disseminate information and resources on quality innovations which are accessible, acceptable and comprehensible for clinicians.

ARCHI's main activities include :

• Provision of an e-bulletin, ARCHI Net News, that showcases initiatives in healthcare delivery around Australia
• Provision of a wide range of electronic documents on the ARCHI website
• Establishment of email-based discussion groups
• An enquiry service for health professionals that provides relevant resources and contact people
• Tool Kit Seminars that are designed to provide practical advice, skills and expert opinion to assist clinical staff and health service managers. They provide practical ideas and workable solutions that can be used to introduce innovation and achieve change in the health care setting.

ARCHI responds to requests for resources and information from public and private hospitals, Divisions of General Practice, community health services, universities, research groups and private health organisations in all of the States and Territories.

 Download a guide to the ARCHI website and services (pdf)

Our history

One of the leading health information clearing houses, ARCHI is building its resources through strong membership support.

ARCHI was established in 1998 by the Department of Health and Ageing as a vehicle to disseminate information and resources for health professionals about the National Demonstration Hospitals Program. It was managed by a Board of Directors as a joint project between Hunter New England Health and the University of Newcastle until 2004, after which time it was adopted by NSW Health to support their Clinical Services Redesign Program.