Priorities and initiatives

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1.2.01: Implement the National Digital Health Capability Action Plan

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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