The Australian Department of Defence Plans to Do E-Health.

A major tender was announced a little while ago (19^th February, 2010)

The key details are as follows:

The Department of Defence is seeking a Contractor to design, build and implement a new electronic health system for serving ADF members. The service provider will be required to tender for all services associated with such an implementation, including supply and integration of the relevant COTS products and the hosting of the solution. Their services will also include organisational change, communication and training.

An Industry Briefing will be held in the morning of Thursday 4th March 2010 in the Australian Capital Territory.

This consultation process is without prejudice and the Department cannot be held to account for any decision made in the final procurement documents.

Important note to Tenderers

Tenderers should note that, as at today's date, the Commonwealth has released only the following parts of this RFT:·

- Covering Letter

- Conditions of Tender (excluding Attachment A)

- Draft Statement of Work (including Attachments)

Other parts of the RFT will be released in due course.

Tenderers should register with AusTender to ensure that they are notified when other parts of the RFT have been released. Tenderers should note that upon registration at jehdi.project@defence.gov.au, the tender pack will be emailed to the registered contact.

Information about registration for the industry briefing will be provided in the conditions of tender.

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See here for full details.

https://www.tenders.gov.au/?event=public.advert.show&AdvertUUID=E334928D-00E3-5AA4-685025E0F2795258

The Tender closes 29-Mar-2010 12:00 pm (ACT Local time)

The tender seems to be driven by the 2009 Defence Capability Review. Here we find a project on the ADF Deployable Health Capability.

It is described thus:

JP 2060 is a multi-phase joint project which involves the identification and development of capabilities required to prevent, treat and evacuate casualties in joint operations in the defence of Australia and its interests.

This phase is intended to improve the existing ADF Deployable Health Capability to deliver optimum quality services for the prevention, treatment and evacuation of casualties. It intends to achieve this through the adoption of a ‘whole of system’ approach to the delivery of health support, addressing each of the following five Health Operating Systems:

• Preventive Health;
• Treatment;
• Medical Evacuation;
• Health Information Systems (command, control, communication, intelligence and information management systems); and
• Health Service Logistics.

The full document is here.

http://www.defence.gov.au/publications/DCP_2009.pdf

More details are also available here:

http://www.defence.gov.au/dmo/id/dcp/dcp.cfm

It is good to see e-health getting a serious look in – if only in, of all places, the Defence Department. I guess they know something the Health Department doesn’t!

Sounds like a pretty major project for someone!

David.