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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