NSW special commissioner Peter Garling has prescribed an aggressive $704 million investment strategy to cure NSW Health's sick information technology systems, in a landmark review published late yesterday.
Days after NSW's Health's technology was slammed as archaic, the Sydney West Area Health Service has gone to market for over 2,000 high-capacity bedside touch-screen computers for patient entertainment and clinician access to core health systems.
Doctors in hospitals within Sydney's west had to temporarily turn back to pen and paper on Saturday when their electronic health record systems went offline, while more lost access to email.
The NSW state government handed down its 2008-09 Budget last night, with a surprise spend on video conferencing for schools, a boost to health tech outlay, and a pledge to tighten ICT capital expenditure.
New South Wales hospitals have received a AU$4 million grant to deploy an e-health system to diagnose patients over broadband.
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Ray Brown stepped in two weeks ago as the latest chief information officer for Queensland Health, hoping to bring some stability to a division that has seen a number of faces move through the head technology spot in quick succession.
Mothers in NSW can look forward to their maternity data being recorded on a new state-wide database designed to provide better access to life-saving information. However the data will also be made available to GPs over the Web as well as used for research purposes.
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