Minister for defence science and personnel Warren Snowdon has launched plans for a new multi-million dollar electronic health record system for the Australian Defence Force.
The new Defence Joint eHealth Data and Information System, known as JeHDI, will link health data from recruitment to discharge and allow for treating health practitioners to access a patient’s complete health record.
JeHDI is designed to improve the quality of healthcare to all Australian Defence Force (ADF) members.
JeHDI is a web-based system which can be accessed wherever internet is available, while still maintaining confidentiality and data integrity.
JeHDI will simplify record management and provide immediate access to patients’ medical records and other healthcare information.
This will provide great benefits to those who regularly move, such as Defence families.
JeHDI is also being developed with Defence Oakton and CSC Australia.
CSC, the world’s largest health systems integrator, has been selected as the Prime Systems Integrator to deliver JeHDI.
Defence is investing more than $55.7 million in the development and delivery of the JeHDI system over the next four years.
The project will be developed through a staged process including a pilot and is expected to be completed by early 2014.