Program Governance

Board of Health Information Systems

The Board of Health Information Systems provides governance to the implementation of the HealthSMART strategy. It meets every two months to provide direction on the implementation and development of the HealthSMART strategic program to ensure that it achieves:

• optimal business benefit,
• effective commercial arrangements and
• robust technical outcomes.

Membership

The Board of Health Information Systems comprises personnel from the health sector and government representing the various interests of stakeholders and interested parties.

Name	Board Position	Organisation	Organisational Position
Ms Fran Thorn	Chair	Department of Health	Secretary
Mr Lance Wallace	Deputy Chair	Department of Health	Executive Director, Metropolitan Health & Aged Care
Mr Alan Lily	Chair Clinical Systems Steering Committee	Eastern Health	Chief Executive Officer
Dr Sherene Devanesen	Chair, Patient & Client Management Systems Steering Committee	Peninsula Health	Chief Executive
Mr John Humphreys	Chair, HealthSMART Services Council
Mr Charles Burgess	Board member	Southern Health	Chief Information Officer
Prof. Chris Brook	Board member	Department of Health	Executive Director, Rural & Regional Health & Aged Care Services
Mr Paul Smith	Board member	Department of Health	Executive Director, Mental Health & Drugs
Trudy Hart	Board member	Department of Treasury & Finance	Executive, Budget & Financial Management

Governance

HealthSMART governance structure - May 2009 (PDF,17kb) - groups, including steering committees and product planning groups, report through to the Board, which in turn reports to ministers and Government.

The program governance for the HealthSMART program has evolved since the Project’s inception and reflects the closure of the Resource Management Systems portfolio.

Original HealthSMART governance structure (PDF, 19kb)