Victoria's Whole of Health ICT strategy 2009-13

News and events

National E-Health Strategy

In early 2008, Australian Health Ministers, through the Australian Health Ministers' Advisory Council, commissioned Deloitte to develop a strategic framework and plan to guide national coordination and collaboration in E-Health. As part of this process, Deloitte conducted a series of national consultations which included Commonwealth, State and Territory Governments, general practitioners, medical specialists, nursing and allied health, pathology, radiology and pharmacy sectors, health information specialists, health service managers, researchers, academics and consumers.

The National E-Health Strategy developed by Deloitte, together with key stakeholders, provides a useful guide to the further development of E-Health in Australia. It adopts an incremental and staged approach to developing E-Health capabilities to:
leverage what currently exists in the Australian E-Health landscape;
manage the underlying variation in capacity across the health sector and States and Territories; and
allow scope for change as lessons are learned and technology is developed further.

The Strategy reinforces the existing collaboration of Commonwealth, State and Territory Governments on the core foundations of a national E-Health system, and identifies priority areas where this can be progressively extended to support health reform in Australia. It also provides sufficient flexibility for individual States and Territories, and the public and private health sectors, to determine how they go about E-Health implementation within a common framework and set of priorities to maximise benefits and efficiencies.

National E-Health Strategy Summary - December 2008 (PDF File 196KB)

Consultation Forums

A number of consultation forums with the health sector have been held to gauge both current and desired future state initiatives for the Whole of Health ICT Strategy 2009-13. These sessions compromised of 20 workshops with more than 250 participants in metropolitan and rural areas.

The briefing documents from the sessions can be found below.

Consultation Round 1

Discussion Paper - Stage 1 Consultation Forum (PDF file 108KB) - July 2008

Consulatation 1 - Presentation (PDF file 157KB) - July 2008

Consultation Round 2

Discussion Paper - Stage 2 Consultation Forum (PDF file 57KB) - August 2008

Focus Group Phase 2 - Presentation (PDF file 135KB) - August 2008

Consultation is also being held across various stakeholder groups. Groups include:

• DHS metropolitan service providers
• DHS rural service providers
• Health agencies
• Key DHS stakeholders
• Rural and Regional Health
• Community Health
• Chief Information Officers
• Ambulance Services
• Justice Health
• Forensicare
• Clinical networks
• IM Community of Practice
• Medical Colleges
• Australian Medical Association
• Selected vendors.

Environment Scan

An Environmental Scan was undertaken to examine what has been achieved in comparable settings and can be applied in Victoria.

Whole of Health ICT Strategy ICT Scan - 1 October 2008 (PDF File 788KB)

Newsletters

A regular newsletter is available to download below. The newsletter provides an update on the Whole of Health ICT Strategy project and likely outcomes for delivery.

Mental Health Information System Strategy Newsletter #1 - October 2008 (PDF file 35KB)

Whole of Health ICT Strategy 2009-13 Newsletter #2 - September 2008 (PDF file 26KB)

Whole of Health ICT Strategy 2009-13 Newsletter #1 - August 2008 (PDF file 43KB)