Our starting design constraint is the funding and resources already available. This is a question to test, not a claim that the current envelope is sufficient everywhere.
Count the whole change
A credible service model includes implementation, integration, hardware, subscriptions, training, backfill, governance and evaluation. It reconciles to actual costs and restrictions on each funding stream.
Time released from low-value administration can improve care. It does not automatically become cash to pay a software bill. A hospital admission avoided may benefit a health budget without releasing money to an aged-care service. Those benefits need separate accounts.
Separate local improvement from policy change
First, test a service model under current rules. Then build a separate shadow simulation of how a defined government envelope could be directed towards need and public value. Preserve rights, safety, workforce obligations and equity, and identify proposed rule changes.
Funding evidence makes a better decision possible. It does not give an algorithm authority to change an entitlement. We want a model that exposes genuine shortfalls as clearly as it exposes avoidable waste.