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GOLD COAST HOSPITAL AND HEALTH SERVICE
“ If we maintain our relentless ambition to adopt new and better ways of working at the scale we have done , we ' re set to do big things in 2021 ”
SANDIP KUMAR , EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF TRANSFORMATION AND DIGITAL , GOLD COAST HOSPITAL AND HEALTH SERVICE
Beyond data analytics , the D24 roadmap is focused on a concept Kumar refers to as Digital Liberation . “ It ’ s a really interesting facet of D24 ,” he says . “ What that means is we ' re trying to liberate our staff from the need to do mundane tasks , which frees them up to do more high-value work ,” something he admits is easier said than done . “ If you ' re a clinician , we obviously want to liberate you from having to spend four days filling out rosters , or hours every day filling out forms , but we also want to liberate our admin staff .” The fourth area of D24 involves making intelligent choices about Gold Coast ’ s Digital Assets . “ We have ageing buildings and ageing infrastructure , both physical and digital , and we want to make smart decisions about how
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“ At the Gold Coast Health , we have all the necessary components to really be something different in the technologydriven healthcare world . On site we have a university hospital , which is public . We have a globally-renowned university literally 100 metres down the road . Go 100 metres down the road in the other direction and you have a nationally renowned private hospital . And right beside it , we have an emerging opportunity in the form of a health and knowledge precinct . That ' s a space in which we ' re looking to create a truly innovative digital healthcare hub .
“ It ' s a mixture of state and privately owned assets , and what we ' re looking to do in that space is use it as an anchor to bring digital healthcare innovators of all sizes into our proximity for high-tech industry development , research collaboration and jobs of the future .”
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