Creating the connections
Work done in hospitals such as the Wesley will create large, intricate silos of information that will one day become part of the HealthConnect system.
As hospitals, GPs, pharmacists, and allied-health professionals prepare themselves for the change, the Federal Government has been selecting specific areas to act as test beds for the interconnected approach to healthcare management.
As a result, you are less likely to die from iatrogenic injury in Launceston, Ballarat, or the entire Katherine region where rollouts are being undertaken, than you are in any Sydney Hospital.
One-and-a-half times the size of Victoria, the Katherine region provides a population of 200,000 with healthcare through a central hospital in the city of Katherine, as well as the Wurli-wurlijang hospital, the Barunga, Binjari, Timber and Yarralin health centres.
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