5.2 Ongoing considerations
Single Digital Patient Record
Managing Change
B A L AC I N G I N V E S T M E N T W I T H P AR T N E R S H I P
R E D U C I N G D I S R U P T I O N W H I L E M E AS U R I N G O U T C O M E S AN D R E A L I S I N G B E N E F I T S
All of the proposed initiatives require significant change management and benefits realisation focus to ensure the resulting technology is successfully embedded in everyday use, staff are adequately trained, and the expected benefits are realised.
A significant focus of the Digital Strategy is enhancing and supplementing the eMR. In aligning with the NSW Health vision for a Single digital patient record (SDPR), the local ICT team must achieve a balance between:
• Ensuring the local needs are met in a timely manner
Funding
• Potentially duplicating investments in technology that soon becomes redundant • Prolonging the ineffective paper based practices waiting for central investments in SDPR that might be delayed • Ensuring that current LHD investments realise their benefits in line with the statewide plans This is a key consideration that must be continually reassessed to ensure the current decision of aligning to the SDPR continues to be the most viable option for the NSLHD.
E N S U R I N G F I N AN C I A L S U S T A I N AB I L I T Y
Funding is an important consideration without which the vision and outcomes outlined in the Digital Strategy cannot be achieved. In many cases, Business case work will be required to seek funding support for major initiatives as BAU funding will not be sufficient. Increasingly, recurrent operational expenditure funding considerations will need to be considered as technology continues to move away from the traditional capital expenditure funding models.
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