Historically run on paper-based systems, aged care providers are increasingly adopting new technologies – but it is being driven more by necessity than a desire to innovate.

• The aged care sector has two choices: it can continue with ‘business as usual’ – or it can start innovating and creating new pathways to deliver services.

In 2021, a study of clinical software found over 40% of aged care providers were still manually uploading data to the Government.

A third of those operators didn’t have a clear IT strategy, while 40% of th