Health & Hospitals Network for Australia's Future: Delivering the Reforms
in the `cloud'. There may well be advantages
financial and operational to using
this technology, but if we are to utilise
it then we need to make sure we have an
appropriate connection that allows for
rapid and secure data transmission.
place significant pressure on practices,
hospitals and aged-care facilities to
provide Wi-Fi access to practitioners
using their own tablet. The challenge
will be providing such access in a safe,
secure and reliable environment.
electronic services provides a strong
marketing tool for practices in their
recruitment of IT-savvy practitioners.
THE CHALLENGE
managers will be their ability to identify,
implement and manage changes associated
with the drive to adopt IT innovation.
to manage a practice that will actively seek
to embrace change that may challenge the
`conventional practice-service delivery model'
will require leadership and the ability to
create a team that seeks to pioneer improved
health-service delivery.
aware of opportunities that exist to improve
quality and service delivery. Identifying
opportunities and being able to convert `idea
to reality' will provide significant benefits
to the practice, patients, practitioners and
staff. The benefits will include service access
for patients and efficiencies resulting in
improved profitability for practices.
It is up to each of us as to whether we
wish to be a practice on the cutting edge of
innovation, shaping the future and taking
advantage of the associated benefits, or a
practice that waits to be forced into adopting
methods framed by others.
"If you always do what you've always done,
you'll always get what you've always got."