through a Gordian knot,” says
Hodgkinson. “A project had been
running for many years to create
a national real time prescription
monitoring system, but it was stalling
because of the complexity of getting
all of the different stakeholders in
Australia to agree on the requirements
and how the project would be
implemented. The Platform+Agile
approach doesn’t bother with that.
It’s about making the best call you can,
implementing the solution and then
relying on the fact that a solution
provided as a public cloud service can
easily scale and be consumed by
other jurisdictions to become the
national solution.” Since going live, the
system has been acclaimed and is
being picked up by other states to
form the basis of a national system.
As for future projects, Hodgkinson
says: “We are still working through a
pipeline of applications that need to
be modernised or rebuilt. There’s very
little that can be done without a digital
solution now. The pace at which we
can deliver digital transformation is
now critical to the government’s ability
to deliver its policy and service
delivery reform programs.”
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