Hunter Urban Medicare Local

Hunter Urban Medicare Local received funding from the Australian Government as a Wave One lead eHealth site in 2010 along with Metro North Brisbane Medicare Local and Inner East Melbourne Medicare Local.

Up to 100 GP practices and 270,000 patients in the area will be involved in this project to develop eHealth capacity.

Targeted patients will be offered the opportunity to have a community based electronic health record with a Summary Health Profile uploaded with their consent. Control over access and sharing of the information will be under the patient’s authority.

Greater Western Sydney eHealth Consortium

Patients will benefit from the large number of health care providers involved in this project which will enable eHealth records to be accessible to doctors across different health settings in different geographical areas. For example, a patient visiting the Children’s Hospital at Westmead will know that their GP in Western Sydney, will have access to up-to-date clinical records for their child.

This project includes secure messaging, eReferrals and a medical imaging repository.

The Greater Western Sydney eHealth consortium is a collaborative team consisting of NSW Health Department, Sydney West Area Health Service, The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, WentWest Division of General Practice, Nepean Division of General Practice, Blue Mountains GP Network Incorporated, Hawkesbury-Hills Division of General Practice and Balance! Healthcare, who operate the Blue Mountains GP Super Clinic.

The project will implement key building blocks for state-wide eHealth infrastructure that will allow NSW Health to connect to the PCEHR System when it becomes available. The initial focus will be on priority consumer groups in the Greater Western Sydney region. The project includes four GP Divisions (WentWest, Nepean, Blue Mountains and Hawkesbury-Hills) and will leverage previous technology investments. With a population reach of 1,750,000, the project will be able to expand the entire solution quickly to encompass a significant geographic area and ultimately the whole of NSW.

St Vincent’s and Mater Health Sydney

This lead eHealth site has a population reach of one million individuals attending the St Vincent’s campus. It will be based around St Vincent’s and Mater Health Sydney, in conjunction with partnering Divisions of General Practice, participating specialists and software vendors including Smart Health, Precedence, HCN and Best Practice.

Check back regularly for updated progress reports on these eHealth initiatives.