The primary aim of the Data Centre Reform (DCR) Program was the migration of infrastructure assets from Local Health Districts and NSW Health (Ministry and Health Entities) data centres into the Government Data Centres (GovDC).
The Statewide Data Centre Reform Program (SwDCR) Program extended the migration of eHealth data centre assets to the GovDC (undertaken in the original DCR Program) to the remainder of NSW Health data centre assets (including Local Health Districts and Health Entities – LHDs / HEs) utilising cloud hosting (public and private) and as-a-service products wherever possible. The program was completed on the 31 December 2023.
Key benefits and outcomes
On February 2024, an expert reviewer conducted a Gate 6 Post-Implementation Review. The expert reviewer scored their level of confidence in the program’s delivery as a high. They noted:
"The SwDCR Program is expected to deliver a range of key benefits and outcomes into the future, including:
- Establish a future-proof, resilient and scalable technology environment to allow for future growth without significant capital expenditure and support the delivery of high-performance frontline applications for clinicians.
- Increase NSW Health data stored in highly available, accessible, secure and resilient infrastructure environments.
- Increase in capacity to quickly procure, scale up or down server capacity to run health services effectively.
- Increase in long-term financially sustainable ICT Infrastructure.
- Provide energy efficiencies and environmental benefits in data centre operations with decreased Carbon Footprint and electricity usage from NSW Health’s ICT Infrastructure."
Key program details
Delivery agency: eHealth NSW
DAF assurance tier: 2
Estimated cost to completion: $53 million
Project start date: 1 June 2017
Project end date: 31 December 2023
For more information, visit Digital Assurance or contact the team at: ICTAssurance@customerservice.nsw.gov.au.