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.
| Item | Initiative | Leads | Partners | Target | Status |
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| 1.1.01 | 1.1.01: Develop and maintain a national secure messaging capability to enable the safe exchange of clinical documents |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Target: Adoption from 2025 to 2027 | Status: Planning |
| 1.1.06 | 1.1.06: Update healthcare provider systems to strengthen and support electronic prescribing |
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Target: Update by 2025 | Status: Planning |
| 1.1.07 | 1.1.07: Assist software vendors to connect allied health providers to My Health Record |
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Target: Delivery by 2025 | Status: Planning |
| 1.1.08 | 1.1.08: Finalise clinical information system standards for residential aged care facilities |
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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 |
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Status: Future |