The eHealth strategy aims to address a number of issues currently being faced by people who provide care to patients and those who support them. The key issues can be summarised as follows:
• Improved ability to access information that is integrated and accurate
• Better support for clinicians and care providers from across the health system to interact more efficiently and effectively with each
• Support for clinical and managerial decision making
• Greater capability for managing patient flow through improved planning and scheduling
• Support for location-independent health service delivery.
Principles of Implementation:
The principles for the implementation of the eHealth Strategy are:
• Build on what exists today and re-use viable capabilities in place
• Establish solid functionality and information, and then build new capabilities
• Introduce new and extended capabilities in phases, and realise benefits incrementally
• Identify solutions that improve quality of care and patient outcomes, while easing the workload burden on care providers
• Implement simple and practical solutions that can be refined over time.
Well donno about others but portfolios that need to be workon according to me are:
Portfolio 1: Information Integration and Communication (
is focussed on providing integrated patient information to care providers )
Portfolio 2: Core Systems Implementation
Focused on selecting, developing and implementing core systems incorporates:
• Medications reporting
• Emergency information management
• Diagnostic imaging
• Community health, mental health and chronic disease management
• Patient management and coordination
• Medications reporting
• Emergency information management
• Diagnostic imaging
• Community health, mental health and chronic disease management
• Patient management and coordination
Portfolio 3: Foundation Projects
Implements functionality and information management practices that provide a foundation for the eHealth program, including:
• Information management
• Unique patient identifier
• Unique provider identifier and service catalogue
• Information management
• Unique patient identifier
• Unique provider identifier and service catalogue
Portfolio 4: Managing and Delivering the eHealth Program
The Initiative covers:
- Business and clinical alignment
- Business transition and sustaining the change
- Benefits realisation
- Program management office and architecture
Well the risks areas are however,Inability to secure sufficient funding to invest in eHealth and associated change activities
• Inability to meet expectations – both internal and external (including community, external providers, industry /vendors, politicians)
• Capacity of Kayaguru Health to deliver a program of the complexity of the eHealth program
• Solutions designed (both technology and processes are not relevant to clinicians and do not add value to their roles / clinical practice
• Inability of the organisation to absorb change (magnitude / rate)
• Not delivering early enough or fast enough
• Perceptions of Information Division credibility and reputation.
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