The organisation said investment in software and technology would allow specialist services to be delivered to patients without the need for travel and would see medication errors reduced as e-prescription software would pick up abnormalities.

It said the investment could allow for general practitioners to observe what was happening to their patients in real-time through an electronic medical record.

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AMA president Helen McArdle said doctors in general practice, emergency departments, in surgery and on medical wards were stressed and exhausted.

She said patients were also waiting too long for health services and were suffering as a result.

Dr McArdle said the AMA's propose would modernise health delivery in Tasmania.

"The benefits are enormous in building efficiency, providing better communication, and supporting different models of care," she said. "But it requires a financial commitment equivalent to that of building a new hospital.

"It requires a ten-year commitment that transcends governments and is legislated such that no future government can stop the project from proceeding, just as you would not leave a hospital half-built."

Dr McArdle said the proposal could be funded not just in collaboration with the federal government.

"We believe this would be best delivered through the federal and state governments reaching an agreement on a single funder model for the entire health system in Tasmania," she said.

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