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Sunday, May 29, 2022
Tasmania Seems To Be Trying To Kick Start Digital Health – Again?
The Tasmanian government
has set aside $150 million in its 2022-23 budget to modernise the state’s
public health IT infrastructure, including through a single electronic medical
record.
The funding, to be provided
over the next four years, will allow the Department of Health to commence a
10-year digital health transformation program set out in a new digital health
strategy.
As much as $475 million is
expected to be allocated to the project over its lifetime to “drive further
adoption of digital health technology to improve patient, clinician and support
staff experiences”.
“Digital health will allow
for increased care to be provided at home and across Tasmania’s geographically
dispersed population,” budget documents state.
“It will deliver a fully
integrated patient-centric healthcare system that will seamlessly share
critical health information across critical and organisational boundaries.”
Health minister Jeremy Rockliff said the initial $150 million
funding – $40 million of which is existing funding – would be used to procure
and trial a new centralised electronic medical record system.
The first ‘horizon’ [pdf] will also see a new integrated electronic patient care
record at Ambulance Tasmania and a statewide “patient record
viewer that connects all public and private health and care
providers”.
Upgrades to existing virtual care technologies, including telehealth,
to “enable more patients to receive care in their home or in their community”
and advanced data analytics capabilities are also on the cards.
“This digital transformation will deliver a range of
benefits for patients, including access to convenient healthcare in local
communities, improved communications about appointments, reduced
waiting time for services, and less duplication of care and forms,”
Rockliff said.
“It will also prevent unnecessary hospital
visits, helping to keep people out of hospital when they don’t need to be
there.
“Importantly, upgrading our digital technologies
will benefit our health professionals by providing
them with the right data, in the right place, at the right time to enable
them to make the best decisions on patient care.”
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