NSLHD Digital Strategy 2021-2026

3.2 Our Digital Strategy guiding principles

The guiding principles act as a foundation upon which executives, the ICT function and the LHD can make decisions about digital investments and architectural design. These principles have been decided locally but leverage heavily on NSW Health technology principles.

Principles guiding our user’s experience…

…Principles guiding the delivery of the strategy

Patient Centred Approach

Interconnected Health Communities

Delivery Through Partnerships

Ensuring that technology investments support new models of integrated care and deliver a quality, patient centred, health experience.

Using technology to promote connectedness across health providers, equipping clinicians with holistic patient information so they can provide better quality and safe care.

Forging strong partnerships – considerate of strategic priorities, cost, resources, value for money, service need and technology – to implement innovative models of care enabled by technology.

Clinical Engagement

Secure, Usable, Quality and Safe Systems

Strategic Commissioning and Procurement

Supporting the creation of technology systems that are fit for purpose and align to clinical processes by ensuring clinicians take an active role across all steps of the system lifecycle including the design, implementation and roll out.

Driving quality, safety and privacy in the design and development of technology systems by measuring and addressing safety concerns at the intersection of patient data, health ICT and statewide ICT systems, particularly as information shifts to ‘paper - lite’ digital systems.

Driving efficiencies in the funding, procurement and management of external provider arrangements to achieve a more adaptive approach to vendor management.

Proactive & Responsive Care

Fostering Innovation and Research

Robust Governance and Investment Management Agile governance models that respond to integrated care models and changes across the state, allowing stakeholders to coordinate and plan effectively at local and state levels.

Focusing on using digital predictive capabilities to provide preventative, quality and safe care for health consumers so health issues are mitigated before they become acute.

Identify and support the development, implementation and adoption of local innovation and research activities to better meet future expectations and improve the delivery of quality and safe care.

Support the mobile workforce

Flexibility & Openness to Change

Standards Based Environment

Enable our clinical and administrative workforce to undertake their crucial work easily, regardless of the device they choose to use or whether they are operating within our facilities, in the community setting or remotely.

Embedding a culture of innovation driven by leadership on the adoption of emerging technologies, investing in effective change management and service provision to promote a universal approach to the redesign of healthcare.

Adopting health information standards to facilitate and streamline the interoperability of technology systems, reducing integration costs while improving the overall quality of delivered components.

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