Queensland Health rejects call to pause electronic medical record rollout
The head of Queensland Health has rejected calls by a doctors group to pause the rollout of a digital health record system across the state’s hospitals.
The head of Queensland Health has rejected calls by a doctors group to pause the rollout of a digital health record system across the state’s hospitals.
"Understanding how these infections spread once they reach Australia means we can predict when and where an outbreak is likely to occur – this means hospitals and biosecurity agencies can be as prepared as possible,” says Dr Dean Paini.
Queensland Health is continuing its experimentation with robot assistants, rolling out additional TESA bots to hospitals across the state next month.
The Queensland government has earmarked $135.4 million for upgrades and new IT systems for its health service in 2017-18.
The Queensland Health chief information officer and CEO of eHealth Queensland, Colin McCririck, has resigned.
Queensland Health says the largest part of a massive migration program that will see its standard operating environment shift from Windows XP to Windows 7 is expected to be completed by mid-July at the latest.
The Queensland government has earmarked $119.9 million for health ICT in 2016-17.
Former Queensland Health CTO Colin McCririck has been appointed as eHealth Queensland’s CEO and CIO.
Queensland's new eHealth investment strategy will create around 1000 jobs, according to the state's health minister, Cameron Dick.
Queensland Health staff have committed to handing back overpayments worth $3.5 million, the state government announced this morning.
The Queensland government has unveiled a new ‘ICT action plan’ outlining how it intends to better manage technology rollouts following Queensland Health’s high profile $1.2 billion payroll disaster.
Queensland Health is to begin piloting a new mental health data warehouse and business intelligence application as part of a wider push by the Queensland government to support mental health information management.
In the wake of its well-publicised shared services disaster last year, the Queensland government has announced it will appoint a state government CIO to implement its digital economy strategy.
Improvements in Queensland Health’s bungled payroll project have been made but issues with salary overpayments and emergency cash payments persist, according to the Queensland Auditor-General.
Queensland Health has signed a contract with Allocate Software for the implementation of a staffing management service in the aim to ease deployment of temporary staff across the state.