Bendigo Health plans to achieve HIMSS level 6, including a closed loop medications management system, by the time it goes fully live with its new TrakCare electronic medical record from InterSystems in 2018.

Part of the massive $630 million Bendigo Hospital redevelopment project, the EMR roll-out will see a digital medical record (DMR) from Slainte Healthcare go live this August to familiarise the hospital's 3000-odd clinical staff with an electronic system before the full EMR begins to be implemented following the hospital's opening next January.