DLA Piper Australia has acted for The Department of Health and Ageing in an eHealth deal worth AUD$77 million.
The deal, announced on 15 August 2011 by Minister for Health and Ageing Nicola Roxon, confirmed that Accenture, a world leader in IT, had been selected to lead a consortium to build IT infrastructure for Australia’s national personally controlled electronic health record (PCEHR) system.
The consortium includes Oracle and Orion Health, with Accenture’s cloud computing partner, Telstra to provide secure infrastructure service. Accenture is set to receive $47.8 million to develop the e-health record system, $17.8 million will go to Oracle in license fees and $11 million to Orion for operating a portal.
DLA Piper was engaged by the Department of Health and Ageing as legal advisors on the PCEHR project which involved conducting four major procurements and negotiating the resulting contracts. The $467 million PCEHR project aims to develop an electronic health records system that will allow all Australians who choose to participate to see their health information when and where they need it.
The DLA Piper team was led by Canberra office managing partner and leading intellectual property and technology lawyer Caroline Atkins with senior associate Sean King and assistance from many others.
Caroline Atkins says: “The signing of the contract with Accenture is a significant milestone for the Australian Government’s health reform program and represents the culmination of twelve months work by our Canberra Intellectual Property and Technology team.”
“The team worked closely with the Department and its advisors to deliver creative legal solutions to ensure that all four procurements were conducted and contracts signed in a short period of time (in order to meet the objective of the PCEHR system being available to all Australians by 1 July 2012) while maintaining adequate risk protections for the Department.”
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