Western Australia Is Really Planning To Do Health IT On The Cheap. Hardly Credible I Believe.

This popped up last week:WA govt funnels $10m into health systemsBy Justin Hendry on May 11, 2018 12:11PM And brings forward cyber security funds.The WA government has prioritised $10 million to overhaul a number of the state ’s critical health systems in this year’s state budget.The government said that the capital funding had be reprioritised “in recognition of the current fiscal environment”.The funding will go towards “a number of ICT requirements that are critical to the operation of key clinical and corpo rate system”, it said.It will cover “a number of application and infrastructure upgrades”, including a $1.5 million overhaul of the psychiatric services online information system server “in order to address system stability issues”.More here on other WA budget moves:https://www.itnews.com. au/news/wa-govt-funnels-10m-into-health-systems-490774Really guys this seems to be a really ridiculously small allocation recognizing that WA is the national IT laggard by a more than... This is the initial part of the post - read more by clicking on the title of the article. David.
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - Category: Information Technology Authors: Source Type: blogs