Benefits for patients, health care providers and vendors

The aim of eHealthWA is to enable the delivery of better health care to the WA community by providing by a modern, integrated and effective technology platform.

Benefits include:

• better access to relevant patient, health care and administrative information at the point of health care delivery
• more consistency of systems and technology allowing for smoother transition between health service areas and organisations
• easier ordering of and access to test results
• better capacity to interface with medical equipment

It is anticipated that improved access to and integrity of information through new systems and technology will help to deliver:

• improved patient safety
• increased quality of clinical care
• reduction in the duplication of certain clinical tests and investigations
• fewer medical errors and adverse events
• more effective use of medicines
• reduced length of hospital stays