Stephen Moo, CIO November 2006

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Department of Health Community Services
Stephen Moo, CIO - November 2006
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A Framework for Building Healthier Communities

• Giving kids a good start in life
• Strengthening families and communities
• Getting serious about Aboriginal health
• Creating better pathways to health services
• Filling service gaps
• Tackling substance abuse
• Creating a health information network
• Support for health professionals
• Public access to the health network
• Research and knowledge

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DHCS Network
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Key Business Application Systems

• Acute Care
• CareSys, Clinial Workstation, Labtrak, Ascribe,
  Qantel, Onestaff, Patient Travel System, Lanier,
  Sterilised Instrument Tracking System, Medchart
  ePrescribing, HealthConnect SEHR Service and P2P
  Service
• Community Services
• Community Care Info System (CCIS), Pensioner
  Concessions System (PCS)
• Health Services
• CCIS, Primary Care Info System (PCIS), Health
  Manager, Notifiable Diseases System (NDS), Pap
  Smear Register, Breast Screening Register,
  HealthConnect SEHR Service and P2P Service
• Data Warehouse
• Plus numerous other databases

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DHCS Integrated Information Systems Architecture
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Applications Support

• CareSys
• provided as a fully managed utility service
• including server infrastructure and support
• Other systems
• DHCS owns server infrastructure,
• application maintenance from system vendor
• OR
• application maintenance Sub-Agreement under NTG
  head agreement (to be re-tendered late 2007)

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Challenges

• National health information standards development
  (NEHTA)
• Moving to full electronic health records and
  secure information interchange
• Improving Web-based resources
• Increased reporting demands
• Mobile access / network coverage / satellite
  performance
• Bedside computing eg. wireless, devices, rapid
  logon and access
• Risk management and business continuity

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Short and Medium Term

• In remote clinics, implement a primary care
  information system
• Major expansion of HealthConnect services
• Implementation of advanced medication management
• Ongoing functionality improvements in current
  systems
• Greater access to online clinical and knowledge
  resources
• Rationalise myriad of small databases
• Radiology (PACS), Oral Health System

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Short and Medium Term cont

• Rebuild the Operating Theatre system
• Migrate application servers to Active Directory
• Evaluate options for fast login
• Develop Web-based resources
• Implement EDRMS
• Enhance knowledge-based library resources
• Major upgrades
• Pharmacy Ascribe System
• Breast screen register and
• professional boards registration

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Longer Term

• Replace or upgrade CareSys and Community Care
  systems
• Replace or upgrade pathology system
• Implement portal capability
• Implement further disaster recovery services
• Implement significant telehealth initiatives
• Outsource server infrastructure services ?