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Leidos-led consortium wins $329.6 million Australian Defence Force digital health platform contract
Telehealth company Coviu and clinical and practice management software provider MediRecords join Leidos in the ambitious project.
By Lynne Minion
May 05, 2022 09:24 PM
A consortium led by systems integrator Leidos has secured a $329.65 million contract to roll out a comprehensive new digital health capability for the Australian Defence Force by July 2028.
Leidos and Australian companies MediRecords, Coviu and Nous Group joined in the consortium bid to deliver the ambitious technologies, including an EMR, telehealth, ePrescribing, practice management, eReferrals, clinical decision support, artificial intelligence and data analytics.
The platform will work across primary, occupational, emergency and hospital care, and integrate with the ADF's IT infrastructure and My Health Record.
ADF expects it to reach at least Stage 5 on the HIMSS Outpatient Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model.
The Defence JP2060 Phase 4 project will see the Health Knowledge Management (HKM) solution replace the existing Defence eHealth System (DeHS), which is based on the UK's EMIS clinical software delivered in 2014 for $133 million. That rollout went $110 million over its initial budget, with the cost blow out blamed on inadequate planning, budgeting and risk management, according to the Australian National Audit Office.
The new HKM solution will cover the ADF’s deployed and non-deployed environments, including garrison sites and operations on land, air and at sea. The current system reaches about 2000 clinicians and 80,000 patients.
Telehealth provider Coviu and cloud-based clinical and practice management software provider MediRecords have been joined on the project by Australian health technology company Alcidion, which will implement its Miya Precision system.
In an announcement to the Australian Stock Exchange, Alcidion said its contract with Leidos amounts to $23.3 million over an initial six year period to "perform the critical role of aggregating data from consortium partner solutions, and other systems in the Defence environment, to provide a single, consolidated, longitudinal view of every participant's health status and history, accessible via the platform's intuitive modern interface."
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Leidos-led consortium scores $329m Defence e-health records deal
By Justin Hendry on May 3, 2022 6:40AM
A Leidos-led consortium has won a $329 million deal to deliver a new e-health records platform for the 80,000 deployed and non-deployed personnel in the Australia Defence Force (ADF).
iTnews can reveal the systems integrator, together with partners MediRecords, Coviu and Nous Group, secured the contract for the system, which is officially known as the Health Knowledge Management (HKM) solution, at the end of last year.
The significant deal was recently made public through the federal government’s procurement website AusTender, without an accompanying announcement from the Department of Defence.
A spokesperson told iTnews the contract followed first pass approval for the HKM solution, which represents the final component of a multi-year, billion-dollar JP2060 deployed health capability project.
“Defence JP2060 phase four – health knowledge management – received government second pass approval in December 2021,” the Defence spokesperson said.
JP2060 is replacing the existing Defence eHealth System (DeHS), which currently provides each ADF member a single e-health record and supports the ADF’s business and clinical processes.
DeHS, which is based on EMIS clinical software, was initially implemented by a CSC-led consortium (now DXC) in 2014 for a cost of $133 million – $110 million more than its initial budget in 2009.
The national auditor put the massive cost overrun down to deficient planning budgeting and risk management, findings Defence – and Leidos – will be acutely aware of this time around.
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What strikes me about all this is that this is quite a large contract ($300M +) being delivered to many sites, needing a fair bit of system integration to the #myHR and the ADF systems, by range of pretty small companies in a time frame that is hoped to be only 6-7 months.
Also it seems it has taken a good while to make the selection.
For mine this has all the hallmarks of integration risk and complexity that are going to need to be managed very carefully if it is not to go way over time and budget.
This project is going to be one to watch very closely.
Good luck team! What do you think?
David.
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"DeHS, which is based on EMIS clinical software, was initially implemented by a CSC-led consortium (now DXC) in 2014 for a cost of $133 million – $110 million more than its initial budget in 2009."
Budget #13m, actual $110m - 8.46 times budget.
That was a typical Defence project. It is in tune with their track record of over promise and under deliver. The Leidos project will no doubt do just as well.
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