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Enterprise IT, Featured, News - Monday, May 21, 2012 11:40 - 15 Comments
Victoria dumps HealthSMART e-health project
news The Victorian State Government has reportedly decided to walk away from its troubled central electronic health project HealthSMART, which has reached only a limited number of its goals over the past decade since it was initiated, despite soaking up several hundred million dollars worth of government funding.
The HealthSMART project was initiated under the Bracks Labor government back in 2003 with a pricetag of $323 million and a due date of 2007. In July 2010 it was reported that it had since had another $37 million pumped into it, with the due date gradually extending, and in November last year the Victorian Ombudsman reported that the project would cost another $243 million to complete.
The initiative was slated to replace the complex patchwork of e-health records systems used across Victoria’s public health sector with a series of more modern and standardised clinical IT applications, with major contracts having been signed with e-health vendors iSOFT (now part of CSC) and TrakHealth. However, as early as 2008, the Victorian Auditor-General had expressed significant concerns about whether HealthSMART could deliver as a project.
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