Portal and interoperability project
What is it?
The portal and interoperability project (PIP) will enable health workers to view all information for which they have access permissions through a single window. This information may be distributed across multiple information systems and locations.
Using National EHealth Transition Authority (NEHTA) standards the project will:
- Manage user identities and access permissions to system resources.
- Define, automate, measure, and continuously improve business processes (including technology and human process steps).
- Support clinical decisions by giving access to information about individual patients across the health care continuum.
- Provide access to relevant health care information to patients, GPs, other external (private) health professionals, non-government organisations (NGOs) etc.
- Allow applications to ‘interoperate’ with services both internal and external to WA Health.
Delivery date
Implementation of the new platform will commence in August 2010. After finalisation of the procurement process, and configuration of the environment a number of 'pilot' applications will be developed.
The primary project objective is to implement a strategic software platform, which will be the foundation for follow-on projects to build upon to deliver the Vision below.
Vision
The future state for portal and interoperability project:
- A single Business Process Management System in place to facilitate continuous business improvement.
- Provide a single view of patient history across multiple information systems and sites at the point of care.
- Enable electronic sharing of information in a timely and secure manner across different geographic locations and systems (CIS, PAS etc) through all parts of the health sector.
- Create a single point of access to health systems via a role based portal.
- Provide simplified sign-on to all core health applications.
- Provide a content management system to manage and publish website content in a standard and consistent manner.
Key milestone delivery
| Milestone |
Delivery date |
Completed |
| Design health common access layer |
May 2010 |
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| Software procured |
Sept 2010 |
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| Commence P&I development and test |
Oct 2010 |
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| Build/test first pilot IAM solution |
Dec 2010 |
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| P&I platform available in production |
Feb 2011 |
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| Initial IAM deployment |
Feb 2011 |
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| Deploy first pilot P&I application |
May 2011 |
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| Project close |
Oct 2011 |
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Contact us
Email ehealth@health.wa.gov.au with any general queries.
