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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| 1.3.01 | 1.3.01: Continue modernising digital health infrastructure including My Health Record with contemporary architectures to make information more accessible and discoverable |
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Target: Ongoing to 2028 | Status: Underway |
| 1.3.02 | 1.3.02: Develop accurate terminology, interoperability standards and conformance for sustained and widespread use |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Target: Developed by 2025 | Status: Underway |
| 1.3.06 | 1.3.06: Embed interoperability in procurement in accordance with national interoperability procurement guidelines |
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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 |
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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 |
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Target: initiate planning by 2024 | Status: Planning |