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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.

Priorities

Digitally enabled

Person-centred

Inclusive

Data-driven

Initiatives

Keywords

Outcomes and Priorities

Leads and Partners

Status

Digitally enabled

Enhance and maintain modern and integrated digital solutions
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