Leidos Australia onboards Cloudera for JP 2060 P4 project
11 August 22
The global hybrid data company has been selected to support Leidos Australia’s work to update Defence’s health infrastructure.
Cloudera is the latest member of a Leidos Australia-led consortium contracted to deliver an e-health management system to the Australian Defence Force (ADF) — dubbed the Health Knowledge Management System — under the JP 2060 Phase 4 project.
The $299 million contract involves replacement of the ADF’s legacy electronic health record product with a “modern, patient-centric” health offering.
The new system will be designed to record, store, aggregate and analyse health data and information, integrating multidisciplinary primary and occupational care with emergency and hospital care.
This is tipped to improve clinical decision making.
As part of its contribution, Cloudera has been tasked with delivering private-cloud-native data engineering capabilities, leveraging its CDP Data Engineering offering.
CDP Data Engineering is expected to draw data from multiple sources, including legacy systems and new data streams, while also creating secure data products designed to streamline and operationalise the data contained in the Health Knowledge Management System.
Leidos Australia’s chief executive, Paul Chase, welcomed the opportunity to work with Defence and its industry partners to deliver an upgraded e-health capability.
“Our team’s health expertise, as well as Leidos’ vast Defence experience, will deliver a modern, sovereign solution that will meet the evolving healthcare needs of the ADF,” Chase said.
Colin Pont, Cloudera ANZ senior alliance manager, welcomed the opportunity to contribute to the JP 2060 Phase 4 project.
“Cloudera is extremely honoured to have been selected to be part of this important healthcare project, led by Leidos, in Australia,” Pont said.
“We understand the challenges faced by governments in extracting value from citizen health data to improve both the clinician and patient journey from primary to emergency care, rehabilitation to recovery, are extremely complex.
“For defence personnel, that journey from the field through evacuation to hospital and recovery is even more so.”
Pont went on to note the importance of developing an “intelligent, data-driven solution” capable of strengthening e-health record-keeping across the defence space.
“We are delighted to be partnering with Leidos and other consortium members to support this transformation project,” he added.
Source: Defence Connect