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Communities of Excellence

Improving health and wellbeing through connected digital health communities in rural and remote areas across Australia.

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Five key focus areas

  • Connecting the community’s healthcare providers to My Health Record
  • Supporting the expansion and availability of telehealth across all areas of healthcare
  • Increasing awareness and use of secure messaging for the exchange of clinical information across different care settings
  • Enabling the use of electronic prescriptions in general practices and pharmacies
  • Building digital health literacy and participation among healthcare providers, patients and their families
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Participating communities

There are currently three Communities of Excellence. 

Emerald in Queensland and Hedland in Western Australia were foundation communities, having been a part of this initiative since 2019. More recently, East Arnhem in the Northern Territory was added.

Learn more about each community

Date last updated: 30 June 2025