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Priorities and initiatives

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.

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Initiatives

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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