Bendigo Health, building a cloud first, mobile first health platform of the future

This morning I had the distinct pleasure of spending an hour with Danny Lindrea, solutions architect at Bendigo Health. Mr. Lindrea came to Microsoft in Redmond to meet some of the members of our worldwide health team and share information on how Bendigo is advancing information communications technologies (ICT) using Microsoft and Microsoft partner services, products, and solutions. In fact, Bendigo may very well be developing the ICT “health platform” of the future.   Bendigo Health has been servicing the Loddon Mallee region of Victoria, Australia, for over 150 years. The system employs more than 3000 staff and offers a 653 bed high acuity teaching hospital, a 60 bed rehabilitation unit, specialty services including mental health, community and outreach services, and residential aged care facilities. At the end of 2016, Bendigo will open a brand new, state-of-the-art hospital facility. The new hospital will provide 372 inpatient beds, 72 same day beds, 10 new operating theaters, a regional cancer center, an 80 bed integrated mental health facility, a mother and baby unit, a helipad, and parking for 1,350 cars. At a time when many US hospitals and health systems are knee-deep trying to implement or optimize a very expensive, legacy EHR solution, Bendigo is taking a much different approach. As Mr. Lindrea states, even if Bendigo followed the herd and implemented one of the usual, well kno...
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