NSW Health starts recruiting tech talent for Epic-led SDPR project

NSW eHealth has begun a hiring blitz to support its rollout of the Single Digital Patient Record (SDPR).

The project formally kicked off in October 2023, with Epic signed to deliver the SDPR.

eHealth has now launched a recruitment program, with a NSW Health spokesperson telling iTnews that "over 300 roles have been created to support delivery of the SDPR over the coming years."

“Successful applicants will join the program from mid-2024," the spokesperson said.

“These roles represent an opportunity to contribute to a next generation system benefitting both patients and clinicians."

As iTnews reported in 2022 when Epic was first signed on for the project, NSW Health currently uses nine electronic medical record systems (EMR), six patient administration systems (PAS) and five pathology laboratory information systems (LIMS).

Currently, Cerner and Orion Health provide NSW Health’s EMR instances, Cerner and DXC provide its PAS instances, and Citadel (Auslab) and Integrated Software Solutions (OmniLab) provide its LIMS.

The first local area health district slated to go live with the SDPR is Hunter New England, in 2025.

The six-year project’s aim is to deliver a single record and system to be used in the state’s 228 public hospitals, more than 600 community health centres, 60 pathology labs, and 150-plus path collection centres.

At the time of writing, the first tranche of recruitment includes positions associated with solution architecture, as well as integration analysis, business intelligence, service management, and trainers.