Greater Western Area Health Service Clinical Outreach Program

Funding recipient

Greater Western Area Health Service (GWAHS)

Project partners

NSW Department of Health

Project achievements

The Greater Western Area Health Service Clinical Outreach Program project upgraded broadband infrastructure and rolled out clinical applications to 47 public hospitals and healthcare facilities in the Greater Western New South Wales area. These support the rollout of innovative health management and diagnostic applications.

A number of hospitals in this region, including the Bathurst, Dubbo and Orange BaseHospitals and Condobolin, Coonamble, Cowra, and Rylstone district hospitals, have benefited from investment in network upgrades and the deployment of innovative e-health applications. These online capabilities have vastly improved the accessibility of patients to timely and high quality treatment.

This project, along with the Greater Southern Area Health Service, Hunter New England Area Health Service and North Coast Area Health Service Clinical Outreach Programs, cover 90 per cent of the geographic area of New South Wales.

The Clinical Outreach Program has delivered infrastructure and technology at 47 sites to support the following healthcare applications:

• Electronic Medical Record
• Picture Archiving Communication System/Radiology Information System
• Critical Care Remote Video Conferencing

These applications have contributed to a significant improvement in patient care by providing faster diagnosis and have eliminated unnecessary patient travel. They have also contributed to the remote assessment and management of critical care patients in regional and rural NSW.
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