Delivering HealthSmart Report - VAGO

Achievement against the approved program plan
Resource management systems
Based on the above data the HealthSMART program has made good progress
implementing the Financial and Materials management Information Systems (FMIS)
and Human Resource Management Systems (HRMS).
Originally, FMIS was to be implemented in ten agencies.
The FMIS project has substantially delivered its planned outputs, with eight of the now
eleven participating health agencies successfully implementing the FMIS product
(Oracle E-Business Suite). Three remaining agencies, the Royal Children’s Hospital,
the Royal Women’s Hospital and the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital have
completed planning and intend to complete implementation in April 2008.
Human Resource Management Systems (payroll, rostering and OH&S) is also
progressing well. The payroll system (CHRIS 21) has been implemented in five of the
original target of seven health agencies, and is operating as expected.
Figure 3B shows that DHS plans to increase the original implementation target for the
payroll application of the HRMS to sixteen agencies. However, to date, no further
agencies (beyond the five that have implemented) have committed to the application.
This may trigger a revenue guarantee for the vendor (as the implementation contract
pricing was based on a volume calculation of estimated payslips to be generated by
the system).
The Kronos application has been procured to provide a rostering solution within the
HRMS application, and is currently being trialled in two agencies.
Patient and client management systems
Replacement of the obsolete HOMER system was one of the main objectives of the
HealthSMART strategy. The HOMER system provided both FMIS and Patient
Management Systems (PMS) functionality to VPHS agencies.
OHIS completed the procurement and planning for implementation of the Patient and
Client Management Systems (PCMS), and Client Management Systems (CMS)
components during 2006.
PCMS implementation progress
An integrated PCMS, i.Patient Manager, was selected for major health services, to
replace obsolete PCMS applications in ten agencies. Of these ten agencies, eight 3
were using HOMER.
After the PCMS portfolio commenced, BHIS increased the number of target agencies
to fifteen.
3 Northern Health, Melbourne Health, Western Health, Eastern Health, Southern Health, Bayside
Health, Bendigo Health (Loddon Mallee), Echuca Regional Health (Loddon Mallee).
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