Victoria's Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) has made good progress on planning more effectively for integrated clinical ICT systems since an infamous auditor-general's critique in 2013, but it still needs to do some work on strategic planning for investments and on developing an ICT assets inventory for the sector, a follow-up report has found.
The 2013 Clinical ICT Systems in the Victorian Public Health Sector report severely criticised the planning behind the $323 million HealthSMART project, which aimed to roll out the Cerner electronic medical record to 19 hospitals as part of a suite of mandated products.
