HealthSMART’s Design Authority

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  Overview
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  Technology and Design
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  HealthSMART HL7 2.4 Implementation Guide (Standard)
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  Orders Messaging, Medications, Imaging and Pathology
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  Solution Architecture
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  Governance
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  National Design Initiatives

Overview

The Design Authority delivers solution based enterprise architecture for Victorian health IT applications. The team establishes design principles, constraints and direction that enables alignment and transition toward Victorian and national ICT strategy. The Design Authority has a specific focus on application architecture that maximises business continuity across systems, data quality, and interfacing using Enterprise Integration Architecture (EAI) solutions to integrate health applications. Key design is focused but not limited to the following initiatives:

• Electronic Ordering for diagnostic system
• Electronic medications management
• Electronic Referrals
• Sustainable and centralised decisions support
• Business intelligence reporting
• Electronic Medical Records
• Electronic Health Records
• Mental Health solutions design

The Design Authority assists health agencies to enable integration capability in their environment. The EAI is a key component that enables applications to share data, maximising functionality and business continuity across HealthSMART applications and relevant health service applications.

The Design Authority is responsible for:

• Defining sustainable IT application design principles and approaches for the Victorian health sector
• Alignment and transition toward National health initiatives
• Delivering standards based interoperability across all HealthSMART applications
• Defining messaging standards for Victorian health application interoperability
• Facilitating a higher level of integration knowledge and associated quality processes in the Victorian health sector
• National directions; providing direction and implementation of NEHTA initiatives:
• Individual Healthcare Identifier (IHI)
• Health Provider Identifiers (HPI-I/O)
• Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record (PCEHR)
• Electronic Referrals
• Electronic Transfer of Prescriptions (ETP)
• National initiatives: Input and alignment with Australian Standards

Currently HealthSMART delivers the following application suites to health agencies:

• Patient and client management systems
• Clinical system
• Resource management systems
• Financial management systems.