There was no "" as it was embodied into the original ICT strategy so Rodgers is developing a state e-health strategy which will, in turn, influence the overall ICT strategy.

"We have four main focus areas of clinical infrastructure, a corporate stream, a business information stream to take terabytes of data and do analytics; and, of course, the IT systems and infrastructure," he said.

"You better make sure there is good IT plumbing in place to connect these systems and make sure they are robust and scalable."

Speaking at this year's CeBIT e-health conference in Sydney, Rodgers said if governments are going to talk about doing an EMR system they need "hospital grade" networks to support the important functions of clinical systems.