DHS Chief Information Officer

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DHS Chief Information Officer
Mary Mckinnon A/CIO
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Portfolio Areas

• Health
• Housing
• Community Services
• Disability
• Also Disaster Recovery Planning

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OCIO - Directions

• Implement a portfolio approach
• Establish a governance structure that works for
  DHS
• Develop the overarching IT strategy to guide
  whole of DHS and divisional approaches
• More consistent adoption of disciplined industry
  processes and approaches
• Maintain DHS Executive high level view of scope,
  scale and implications of IT projects

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CIO Group Structure
Secretary
Fran Thorn
ED
,
ED
,
ED
,
ED
,
ED
,
Chief Information
ED
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ED
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ED
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Portfolio Services
Mental Health

Operations
Children Youth and Family Services
Disability
Housing

Officer
Rural

Regional
Metropolitan
Financial


Strategic
Drugs
Mike Debinski (Acting)
Services
Community
Andrew Howard
Health

Aged
Health

Aged
Corporate Services
Projects
(
Under
Gill Callister
Arthur Rogers
Building
Care Services
Care Services
Alan Hall
Paul MacDonald
Secretary
)
Pam White (Acting)
Chris Brook
Lance Wallace
Peter Allen
Director
,
Finance

Director
,
Business Systems
Office of Health

Information Systems
IM

T Director
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IM

T Director
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IM

T Director

IM

T Director
,
Health
Corporate Services
Community
Housing
Peter Williams
David Ryan
Ray Baird
Grahame Coles
Director, Strategy Enterprise Architect Vivek
Pande
,
Program Management Office Manager Manny Hemman
Design Authority Manager and Senior Business
Analyst Andrew Hanley
Vendor Manager
Change Manager
(
role deferred
)
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Engaging with DHS
Open

• External Tenders
• Departmental Panels
• WoVG eServices Panel
• WoVG Contracts

Closed
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DHS Opportunities Corporate Services

• Incident Reporting, DINMAs, and Corporate
  Complaints
• January 2009 Requirements for a solution to RFT
• Disability Rostering System
• Evaluating viability of using Kronos for
  Rostering and Time/Attendance
• July 2008 Biometric Scanning devices for the 600
  disability residential units
• July 2008 Integration Services
• Review of the best business model for Payroll
• May 2008 Business Process Review around the
  Payroll function
• Replacement of the existing Funded Agency
  Contract System (SAMS)
• May 2008 RFT for a solution to managing
  contracts with agencies
• In the Pipeline
• Enterprise Search Engines
• Patient Travel System
• Multipoint Video Conferencing
• Agency Portal Research Redevelopment

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IM T Director - Health

• Current HealthSMART implementations due to
  complete in 2009.
• Health ICT Strategy 2009-2013 by Q3 2008
• Build on platform established by HealthSMART
• Client focus to support interoperable systems
  providing better coordinated service delivery
• Impact of national agenda
• NEHTA implementation of Unique Healthcare
  Identifiers and standard terminology
• National eHealth Strategy

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Major upcoming ICT Projects in Community Services
_at_DHS

• ICT Strategic Planning
• Individualised Planning and Funding approaches
• Mobile Technologies for highly mobile workforce
• Business Process Re-engineering
• Improved Reporting and Business Intelligence
• Improvements to Accommodation Services
• Respite Booking Service
• Video Conferencing initiatives
• Client Management Systems improvements
• Video Interpreting Services (Sign Language and
  LOTE)
• Aids and Equipment Systems

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Summary

• DHS is on a renewed path to IT enable the
  business.
• The new approach blends the challenges of the DHS
  diversity and matrix management model
• Do the right projects , for the right business
  reasons and deliver the desired outcome