Cloudera to support Leidos-led Defence e-health project

Hybrid cloud company Cloudera has been selected to join the Leidos-led consortium that will deliver the Australian Defence Force’s new e-health management system.

Leidos Australia has been awarded the contract to lead a consortium to deliver the ADF’s Health Knowledge Management System in a $299 million project.

The project will replace the ADF’s legacy electronic health record product with a modern, patient-centric health solution capable of recording, storing, aggregating and analysing health data and information across the Defence forces.

Under the contract, Cloudera will deliver private-cloud-native data engineering capabilities for the solution using its CDP Data Engineering solution.

The solution will be responsible for ingesting data from multiple sources, including legacy systems and new data streams, and for creating secure data products that streamline and operationalise the data contained in the Health Knowledge Management System, Leidos Australia CEO Paul Chase said.

“Leidos Australia looks forward to working with Defence and our team of exceptional health sector partners to deliver this critical capability to the ADF. Our team’s health expertise, as well as Leidos’s vast Defence experience, will deliver a modern, sovereign solution that will meet the evolving healthcare needs of the ADF,” he said.

Cloudera ANZ Senior Alliance Manager Colin Pont added that the company is “extremely honoured” to have been selected for the project.

“We understand [that] 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,” he said.

“Having an intelligent, data-driven solution that strengthens e-health record-keeping across such complex settings will be key to identifying and delivering appropriate care to those who serve. We are delighted to be partnering with Leidos and other consortium members to support this transformation project.”

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