Melbourne's Alfred Health has gone to the market to look for a single sign-on solution as part of its electronic Timely Quality Care (eTQC) project, which will see it invest in a significant uplift of its Cerner electronic medical record and better support the use of clinical applications at the point of care.

Alfred Health says the eTQC program represents the largest technology investment undertaken by the organisation, which has used a version of Cerner's clinical information system since 1999. As part of its strategic plan, it has committed to the implementation of a full enterprise-wide EMR supported by real-time data capture and to achieve HIMSS Level 6 certification by 2020.