eHealth NSW has charged ahead with the roll-out of electronic medical records in NSW hospitals and multi-purpose clinics, implementing some sort of EMR capability in 104 sites during the 2015-16 financial year and with 73 per cent of NSW Health clinicians now using an EMR to provide care.
The state is also set to complete the mammoth Health Wide Area Network (HWAN) upgrade in the remaining rural Local Health Districts (LHDs) by the end of the calendar year, and will continue the roll-out of the HealtheNet system, which has now been implemented in 195 hospitals and is used to connect to the My Health Record and to send discharge summaries to GPs.
eHealth NSW CEO/CIO Zoran Bolevich told an Australian Information Industry Association forum in Sydney today that while the agency was well resourced to the tune of between $150 to $170 million a year, it had a huge scope of work on at the moment, running 24 different programs across six portfolios.
