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The Strategy Delivery Roadmap sets out clear and measurable steps for how stakeholders across the nation will implement Australia's National Digital Health Strategy. The initiatives from the roadmap are outlined below and will help implement the strategy through its 12 priority areas and 4 health system outcomes

Select an outcome or priority below, then scroll down to discover the related initiatives.

Priorities

Initiatives

Item Initiative Leads Partners Target Status
1.1.01

1.1.01: Develop and maintain a national secure messaging capability to enable the safe exchange of clinical documents

  • Australian Digital Health Agency
  • All health departments
  • Government agencies
  • Industry and technology vendors
  • Healthcare providers
  • Australian Centre for Disease and Control
Target: Ongoing to 2028 Status: Underway
1.1.02

1.1.02: Continue roll out of Provider Connect Australia to ensure availability of up-to-date information about healthcare providers

  • Australian Digital Health Agency
  • Services Australia
  • All health departments
  • Healthcare providers
Target: Ongoing to 2028 Status: Underway
1.1.03

1.1.03: Assist software vendors to connect residential aged care facilities to My Health Record

  • Australian Digital Health Agency
  • Department of Health and Aged Care
  • Industry and technology vendors
  • Healthcare and aged care providers
Target: Delivery by 2025 Status: Underway
1.1.04

1.1.04: Connect multiple government services to newborn enrolment information by rolling out the Birth of a Child project nationally

  • ACT Government
  • All governments
  • Australian Digital Health Agency
  • Consumers
  • Digital Transformation Agency
  • Healthcare providers
  • Registries of Births Deaths and Marriages
  • Services Australia
Target: Initiate planning by 2023 Status: Underway
1.1.05

1.1.05: Advance the use of electronic referrals, transfers of care and discharge summaries as business as usual

  • Healthcare providers
  • Healthcare organisations
  • All health departments
  • Consumers
Target: Adoption from 2025 to 2027 Status: Planning
1.1.06

1.1.06: Update healthcare provider systems to strengthen and support electronic prescribing

  • All health departments
  • Healthcare providers
  • Industry and technology vendors
Target: Update by 2025 Status: Planning
1.1.07

1.1.07: Assist software vendors to connect allied health providers to My Health Record

  • Australian Digital Health Agency
  • All governments
  • Department of Health and Aged Care
  • Industry and technology providers
  • Residential aged care providers and facilities
Target: Delivery by 2025 Status: Planning
1.1.08

1.1.08: Finalise clinical information system standards for residential aged care facilities

  • Australian Digital Health Agency
  • All governments
  • Department of Health and Aged Care
  • Industry and technology providers
  • Residential aged care providers and facilities
Target: Delivery by 2025 Status: Planning
1.1.09

1.1.09: Enhance and expand advance care planning documents to support end-of-life decisions, ongoing care and treatment preferences

  • Australian Digital Health Agency
  • Healthcare and aged care providers
  • Consumers
  • Government
Status: Future
Item Initiative Leads Partners Target Status
1.2.01

1.2.01: Implement the National Digital Health Capability Action Plan

  • Australian Digital Health Agency
  • Australasian Institute of Digital Health
  • Healthcare and aged care providers
  • All health departments
  • Industry and technology vendors
  • Consumers
Target: Implementation by 2028 Status: Underway
1.2.02

1.2.02: Develop a digital health workforce readiness framework for organisations to self-assess and plan their digital health workforce development

  • Australasian Institute of Digital Health
  • Australian Digital Health Agency
  • Healthcare and aged care providers
  • Industry and technology vendors
Target: Implementation by 2025 Status: Underway
1.2.03

1.2.03: Pilot and evaluate the national digital health capability framework and self-assessment tool to improve digital health skills of the health and care workforce in residential aged care facilities

  • Australian Digital Health Agency
  • Australasian Institute of Digital Health
  • Department of Health and Aged Care
  • Healthcare and aged care providers
Target: Completion by 2024 Status: Underway
1.2.04

1.2.04: Develop guidelines and resources for digital health learning, education and practice

  • Australasian Institute of Digital Health
  • Australian Digital Health Agency
  • Education providers
  • Industry and technology vendors
Target: Implementation by 2025 Status: Underway
1.2.05

1.2.05: Develop an online hub to host and connect curated digital health workforce content

  • Australasian Institute of Digital Health
  • Australian Digital Health Agency
  • Healthcare and aged care providers
  • Industry and technology vendors
Target: Implementation by 2024 Status: Underway
1.2.06

1.2.06: Uplift digital health capabilities in primary care to improve interoperability between systems and streamline and simplify data access

  • Department of Health and Aged Care
  • Primary Health Networks
  • Healthdirect Australia
  • Healthcare providers
  • Industry and technology vendors
  • All health departments
Status: Future
1.2.07

1.2.07: Develop and operate digital solutions that support the career and learning pathways of healthcare providers and their mobility across the sector

  • Department of Health and Aged Care
  • All health departments
  • Australian Digital Health Agency
Status: Future
Item Initiative Leads Partners Target Status
1.3.01

1.3.01: Continue modernising digital health infrastructure including My Health Record with contemporary architectures to make information more accessible and discoverable

  • Australian Digital Health Agency
  • Industry and technology vendors
  • All health departments
  • Consumers
  • Healthcare providers
  • Researchers
Target: Ongoing to 2028 Status: Underway
1.3.02

1.3.02: Develop accurate terminology, interoperability standards and conformance for sustained and widespread use

  • Australian Digital Health Agency
  • Industry and technology vendors
  • Healthcare providers
  • All health departments
  • Government agencies
Target: Ongoing to 2028 Status: Underway
1.3.03

1.3.03: Develop Fast Health Interoperability (FHIR®) core standards that set the minimum requirements to support consistent capture and sharing of health information

  • Australian Digital Health Agency
  • CSIRO
  • Department of Health and Aged Care
  • HL7 Australia
  • All health departments
  • Industry and technology vendors
  • Healthcare providers
Target: Initiate planning by 2023 Status: Underway
1.3.04

1.3.04: Continue to implement standards and resilience measures to protect personal health information and digital health infrastructure from cyber-attack, natural disasters and climate events

  • All governments
  • All health departments
  • Healthcare providers
  • Industry and technology vendors
  • Consumers
  • Australian Cyber Security Centre
Target: Ongoing to 2028 Status: Underway
1.3.05

1.3.05: Co-design technical, clinical terminology and exchange standards for a national electronic requesting capability for diagnostic imaging and pathology

  • Department of Health and Aged Care
  • CSIRO
  • Healthcare providers
  • Consumers
  • Industry and technology vendors
Target: Developed by 2025 Status: Underway
1.3.06

1.3.06: Embed interoperability in procurement in accordance with national interoperability procurement guidelines

  • All governments
  • Industry and technology vendors
  • Healthcare providers
Target: Ongoing to 2028 Status: Planning
1.3.07

1.3.07: Mandate electronic prescribing for medicines that are high cost and/or high risk through updates to technology, standards and regulation

  • Department of Health and Aged Care
  • All health departments
  • Healthcare providers
  • Consumers
  • Industry and technology vendors
Target: Initiate planning by 2024 Status: Planning
1.3.08

1.3.08: Increase digital maturity to enable efficient data collection, analysis and use of national clinical quality registries in line with the Framework for Australian Clinical Quality Registries

  • All health departments
  • Healthcare organisations
  • Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care
  • Australian Digital Health Agency
Target: initiate planning by 2024 Status: Planning

Item Initiative Leads Partners Target Status
2.1.01

2.1.01: Co-design, deliver, promote and participate in consumer digital health literacy programs and integrate with broader government digital literacy programs

  • Australian Digital Health Agency
  • Consumers
  • All governments
  • Healthcare providers
  • Researchers
Target: Ongoing to 2028 Status: Underway
2.1.02

2.1.02: Use guidelines, such as the Assessment Framework for mHealth Apps, when developing consumer facing digital health products that meet a range of consumer needs and levels of digital health literacy

  • Industry and technology vendors
  • Australian Digital Health Agency
  • Department of Health and Aged Care
  • Consumers
  • Healthcare providers
Target: Development and implementation from 2024 to 2028 Status: Planning
2.1.03

2.1.03: Undertake research and evaluate effectiveness of digital health literacy programs to inform program development

  • Researchers
  • Australian Digital Health Agency
  • All health departments
  • Consumers
Status: Future
2.1.04

2.1.04: Consider digital health literacy in national safety and quality standards

  • Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care
  • Consumers
  • Department of Health and Aged Care
  • Healthcare providers
Status: Future
Item Initiative Leads Partners Target Status
2.2.01

2.2.01: Develop a National Health Information Exchange Architecture and Roadmap that will establish the national technical infrastructure requirements and direction to enable consistent, secure, safe and discoverable near real-time sharing of health information across care settings, with consent, regardless of where the data is stored

  • Australian Digital Health Agency
  • Department of Health and Aged Care
  • All health departments
  • Consumers
  • Healthcare providers
Target: Initiate planning by 2024 Status: Underway
2.2.02

2.2.02: Enable consumers, carers and healthcare providers to access key aged care information such as the aged care assessment summary in My Health Record

  • Australian Digital Health Agency
  • Department of Health and Aged Care
  • Consumers
  • Healthcare and aged care providers
  • Industry and technology vendors
  • All governments
Target: Implementation by 2025 Status: Underway
2.2.03

2.2.03: Enable key health information to be made easily available to support transfer of care between residential aged care and acute care settings

  • Australian Digital Health Agency
  • Industry and technology vendors
  • Residential aged care providers and facilities
  • All governments
Target: Initial implementation in 2024 Status: Underway
2.2.04

2.2.04: Support Real Time Prescription Monitoring (RTPM) to provide clinical decision making support for prescribers and dispensers

  • Australian Digital Health Agency
  • Healthcare providers
  • All health departments
Target: Ongoing to 2028 Status: Underway
2.2.05

2.2.05: Deliver a Prescription Delivery Service that supports the ongoing uptake of electronic prescribing, the expanded use of electronic medication charts and the use of electronic prescribing for high-risk and high-cost medicines

  • Department of Health and Aged Care
  • All health departments
  • Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care
  • Australian Digital Health Agency
  • Healthcare providers
  • Industry and technology vendors
  • Services Australia
Target: Ongoing to 2028 Status: Underway
2.2.06

2.2.06: Support the use and expansion of electronic prescribing, including the delivery of operational support such as incident management for the Prescription Delivery Service

  • Australian Digital Health Agency
  • Department of Health and Aged Care
  • Industry and technology vendors
Target: Ongoing to 2028 Status: Underway
2.2.07

2.2.07: Establish regulatory requirements and changes to national accreditation standards to require private and public healthcare providers to share information to My Health Record by default, starting with diagnostic imaging and pathology. This will include providing technical and registration support, education and training

  • Department of Health and Aged Care
  • Australian Digital Health Agency
  • Consumers
  • Healthcare and aged care providers
  • Industry and technology vendors
Target: Implementation by 2025 Status: Underway
2.2.08

2.2.08: Expand functionality and health information available in the my health app to better support consumers, such as structured pathology, electronic prescriptions, aged care transfer summaries and Medicare information

  • Australian Digital Health Agency
  • Consumers
  • Healthcare providers
  • Industry and technology vendors
Target: By 2024 Status: Underway
2.2.09

2.2.09: Engage consumers in co-design and improvements to digital health solutions such as my health app and My Health Record

  • Australian Digital Health Agency
  • Consumers
  • Healthcare providers
  • Industry and technology vendors
Target: Ongoing to 2028 Status: Underway
2.2.10

2.2.10: Develop a roadmap to support the allied health sector and software vendors to upload clinical content to My Health Record

  • Department of Health and Aged Care
  • Australian Digital Health Agency
  • Industry and technology vendors
  • Healthcare providers
Target: development by end of 2024 Status: Planning
2.2.11

2.2.11: Implement widespread adoption and use of national healthcare identifiers for individuals, healthcare providers and healthcare provider organisations

  • Department of Health and Aged Care
  • Australian Digital Health Agency
  • All governments
  • Services Australia
  • Healthcare providers
  • Industry and technology vendors
Target: Ongoing to 2028 Status: Planning
2.2.12

2.2.12: Connect hospital clinical information systems to the National Health Information exchange

  • Australian Digital Health Agency
  • Health departments
  • Healthcare providers
  • Industry and technology vendors
Status: Future
2.2.13

2.2.13: Enable pregnancy and child health information to be shared and accessed through national digital health infrastructure

  • Australian Digital Health Agency
  • All health departments
  • Healthcare providers
Status: Future
2.2.14

2.2.14: Uplift the Pharmacist Shared Medicines List to enable structured medicines information to be discoverable and available in the My Health Record System

  • Australian Digital Health Agency
  • Healthcare providers
  • Industry and technology vendors
Status: Future
2.2.15

2.2.15: Share information by default to support multidisciplinary care, including aged care plans and GP management plans

  • Healthcare and aged care providers
  • Industry and technology vendors
  • Australian Digital Health Agency
  • Department of Health and Aged Care
Status: Future
Item Initiative Leads Partners Target Status
2.3.01

2.3.01: Support secure information sharing by enhancing authentication services

  • Services Australia
  • All health departments
  • Healthcare providers
  • Industry and technology vendors
Target: Ongoing implementation to 2028 Status: Underway
2.3.02

2.3.02: Identify options to develop a national health legislative framework authorising health information sharing across care settings and borders

  • Department of Health and Aged Care
  • Australian Digital Health Agency
  • All health departments
  • Consumers
  • Healthcare providers
  • Industry and technology vendors
Target: Development by 2025 Status: Underway
2.3.03

2.3.03: Implement system changes to store and manage individual and organisational healthcare provider details

  • All health departments
  • Healthcare providers
  • Industry and technology vendors
  • Australian Digital Health Agency
Target: Implementation by 2026 Status: Planning
2.3.04

2.3.04: Progress integration between the national digital identity solution and healthcare systems

  • Department of Health and Aged Care
  • Department of Finance
  • Australian Digital Health Agency
  • Industry and technology vendors
Target: Initiate planning by 2023 Status: Planning
2.3.05

2.3.05: Review and implement regulatory requirements for consent management for access and use of patient health information

  • Department of Health and Aged Care
  • Healthcare providers
  • Industry and technology vendors
  • All health departments
Status: Future
2.3.06

2.3.06: Ensure service provider details in healthcare provider directories are accurate and kept up to date

  • Healthdirect Australia
  • Services Australia
  • Healthcare providers
  • All health departments
  • Australian Digital Health Agency
Status: Future

Item Initiative Leads Partners Target Status
3.1.01

3.1.01: Provide digital solutions to support expanded delivery of home-based care, such as hospital delivered in the home and services provided in residential care facilities

  • All health departments
  • Healthcare providers
  • Industry and technology vendors
  • Care providers
Target: Ongoing to 2028 Status: Underway
3.1.02

3.1.02: Evaluate virtual care models, policy tools and mechanisms that support team-based, multidisciplinary primary and specialist care and identify opportunities for further investment

  • All health departments
  • Researchers
  • Industry and technology vendors
  • Consumers
  • Healthcare providers
Target: Review by 2027 Status: Planning
3.1.03

3.1.03: Identify, design and build digital capabilities required to improve and scale virtual care, particularly in rural and remote areas

  • Industry and technology vendors
  • All health departments
  • Healthcare providers
Status: Future
Item Initiative Leads Partners Target Status
3.2.01

3.2.01: Develop and design capabilities that support the sharing of health information from personal devices

  • Industry and technology vendors
  • Consumers
  • Healthcare providers
Target: Ongoing to 2028 Status: Underway
3.2.02

3.2.02: Develop capabilities to enable healthcare provider systems to collect and display health information from personal devices

  • Industry and technology vendors
  • Healthcare providers
  • All health departments
  • Consumers
Target: Development by 2028 Status: Planning
3.2.03

3.2.03: Incorporate standards and develop infrastructure to support the sharing of health information from personal devices with healthcare providers

  • All health departments
  • Industry and technology vendors
Target: Development by 2028 Status: Planning
3.2.04

3.2.04: Establish governance and a framework to support adoption, use of personal devices and sharing of personal health information

  • All health departments
  • Industry and technology vendors
Target: Development by 2028 Status: Planning
Item Initiative Leads Partners Target Status
3.3.01

3.3.01: Support the design, development, and enhancement of digital infrastructure to enable integrated mental healthcare screening, assessment, navigation, referral and treatment

  • Department of Health and Aged Care
  • Healthcare providers
  • Industry and technology vendors
  • Consumers
Target: Development by 2025 Status: Underway
3.3.02

3.3.02: Identify options to improve data integration between the health and disability systems

  • Department of Health and Aged Care
  • All governments
  • Department of Social Services
  • National Disability Insurance Agency
Target: Ongoing to 2028 Status: Underway
3.3.03

3.3.03: Enhance digital systems and services that support team-based care for consumers registered with MyMedicare

  • Services Australia
  • Department of Health and Aged Care
  • Department of Veterans’ Affairs
  • Australian Digital Health Agency
  • Industry and technology vendors
Target: Development by 2026 Status: Planning
3.3.04

3.3.04: Support the development of new digital health standards with a focus on priority use cases and emerging technologies

  • Department of Health and Aged Care
  • All health departments
  • Healthcare and aged care providers
Target: Development by 2027 Status: Planning
3.3.05

3.3.05: Align digital health plans and activities with actions in national, state, territory, and Coalition of Peaks Closing the Gap Implementation Plans

  • All governments
  • Healthcare organisations
  • Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisations
  • Aboriginal Medical Services
Target: Ongoing to 2028 Status: Planning
3.3.06

3.3.06: Engage consumers who experience barriers to healthcare access, and peak health and community organisations to uptake, access, use and co-design digital health solutions

  • Australian Digital Health Agency
  • Peak health and community organisations
  • Healthcare providers
  • Industry and technology vendors
  • All health departments
Status: Future

Item Initiative Leads Partners Target Status
4.1.01

4.1.01: Undertake and share research into digital health models of care to inform public health decisions and the translation of the models into clinical practice

  • Researchers
  • Industry and technology vendors
  • Governments
  • Healthcare providers
Target: Ongoing until 2026 Status: Underway
4.1.02

4.1.02: Collect and share patient reported experience and outcomes data to inform decision making, shared care planning and care improvements

  • Healthcare providers
  • Governments
  • Researchers
Target: Ongoing until 2028 Status: Underway
4.1.03

4.1.03: Deliver a data analytics capability and implement analytics programs to leverage identified data including for research and public health use once necessary governance and legislative arrangements are established

  • Department of Health and Aged Care
  • Australian Digital Health Agency
  • All health departments
  • Researchers
  • Industry and technology vendors
Target: Ongoing until 2028 Status: Underway
4.1.04

4.1.04: Australia to participate in discussions to harmonise global aligned standard on health technology exports and reduce costs associated with customising imported global products

  • Department of Health and Aged Care
  • Australian Digital Health Agency
  • Therapeutic Goods Administration
  • Department of Industry
  • Science and Resources
Target: Ongoing until 2028 Status: Underway
4.1.05

4.1.05: Australia continue international cooperation to advance secure and interoperable digital health as a core focus of the the Global Digital Health Partnership and organisations including WHO, OECD, APEC and G20

  • Department of Health and Aged Care
  • Australian Digital Health Agency
Target: Ongoing until 2028 Status: Underway
4.1.06

4.1.06: Develop mechanisms to ensure Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities have access to data held by government and other relevant entities to support local planning and decision making

  • All governments
  • Healthcare providers
  • Researchers
Target: By 2027 Status: Planning
4.1.07

4.1.07: Support the use of exploratory and simulation research activities to evaluate digital health solutions

  • All governments
  • Industry and technology vendors
  • Healthcare providers
Status: Future
4.1.08

4.1.08: Harmonise relevant policy and legislation across jurisdictions to support the safe and secure use of and access to health information

  • All governments
  • Industry and technology vendors
  • Healthcare providers
Status: Future
Item Initiative Leads Partners Target Status
4.2.01

4.2.01: Develop plans for emerging and highly dimensional data such as AI, image analysis and genomics

  • All governments
  • Industry and technology vendors
  • Healthcare providers
  • Researchers
Target: Ongoing development to 2028 Status: Underway
4.2.02

4.2.02: Uplift national and jurisdictional digital health infrastructure to flexibly accommodate AI, machine learning, deep learning technologies and genomics

  • All health departments
  • Australian Digital Health Agency
  • Industry and technology vendors
  • Healthcare providers
  • Researchers
Target: Ongoing to 2028 Status: Underway
4.2.03

4.2.03: Monitor and identify emerging data sources and technology that support healthcare

  • Australian Digital Health Agency
  • All health departments
  • Industry and technology vendors
  • Researchers
Target: Ongoing to 2028 Status: Underway
4.2.04

4.2.04: Identify healthcare related opportunities and risks arising from broader, whole-of economy approaches to the regulation of AI

  • Department of Health and Aged Care
  • Australian Digital Health Agency
  • All partners
Status: Future
4.2.05

4.2.05: Support adoption of and regulate new medical technology including bioinformatics, AI and mixed reality in settings such as radiology, ophthalmology and triaging

  • Industry and technology vendors
  • Governments
  • Healthcare providers
  • Therapeutic Goods Administration
Status: Future
4.2.06

4.2.06: Support implementation of data sharing frameworks for data such as genomics and for My Health Record

  • Department of Health and Aged Care
  • Australian Digital Health Agency
  • States and territories
  • Healthcare providers
  • Researchers
Status: Future
Item Initiative Leads Partners Target Status
4.3.01

4.3.01: Measure, monitor and report on changes in digital health maturity, adoption, meaningful use and benefits to inform national and local planning

  • Australian Digital Health Agency
  • All health departments
  • Researchers
  • All governments
  • Healthcare providers
  • Consumers
  • Industry and technology vendors
Target: Ongoing to 2028 Status: Underway
4.3.02

4.3.02: Participate in evaluations and provide feedback on experiences of digital health

  • Consumers
  • Researchers
  • Industry and technology vendors
  • All health departments
Target: Ongoing to 2028 Status: Underway
4.3.03

4.3.03: Support increased digital health maturity, adoption and meaningful use through increased awareness of digital health benefits among consumers and healthcare providers

  • Australian Digital Health Agency
  • Researchers
  • All health departments
  • Healthcare providers
  • Consumers
  • Industry and technology vendors
Target: by 2025 Status: Planning
4.3.04

4.3.04: Increase access to and integration of clinical quality registries in the broader digital health ecosystem to support patient-centred care and clinical practice improvement

  • Department of Health and Aged Care
  • Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care
  • Healthcare providers
  • Industry and technology vendors
Status: Future
Date last updated: 28 March 2024