How Integrating Healthcare Information Systems and Enterprise Architecture Optimises Patient Flow in Australian Hospitals
by Rod Johnston, Bhubet Phunthasu, Yiting Wang, Han Ngoc Nguyen, Mao Li and Rod Dilnutt
Summary
Ambulance ramping is a significant and worsening problem in Australia. Whilst significant effort has been directed at this growing concern across the country, most attempts at improving this situation have failed. In this insightful paper by students at the University of Melbourne, we see the proposal that a lack of holistic views across systemic patient flow and care provision may be a limiting factor in addressing the problem. With a fusion of the TOGAF, HERA and ZiRA frameworks, the authors propose a way of implementing effective communication mechanisms to ensure that information can be shared in an efficient and timely manner, improving not only ambulance ramping, but a broad range of process limitations.
Acknowledgement
The paper has been created under the supervision of Dr Rod Dilnutt, School of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne.
