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National eHealth Strategy Summary – December 2008
- National eHealth Strategy Summary – Australian Health Ministers' Conference December 2008 (PDF 246KB)
- National eHealth Strategy (external website) - Full version available
In early 2008 Australian Health Ministers, through the Australian Health Ministers' Advisory Council, commissioned Deloitte to develop a strategic framework and plan to guide national coordination and collaboration in eHealth. As part of this process, Deloitte conducted a series of national consultations which included:
- federal, state and territory governments
- general practitioners
- medical specialists
- nursing and allied health
- pathology, radiology and pharmacy sectors
- health information specialists
- health service managers
- researchers, academics and consumers
The National eHealth Strategy developed by Deloitte, together with key stakeholders, provides a useful guide to the further development of eHealth in Australia. It adopts an incremental and staged approach to developing eHealth capabilities to:
- leverage what currently exists in the Australian eHealth landscape
- manage the underlying variation in capacity across the health sector and states and territories
- allow scope for change as lessons are learned and technology is developed further
The strategy reinforces the existing collaboration of federal, state
and territory governments on the core foundations of a national eHealth
system. It identifies priority areas where this can be progressively
extended to support health reform in Australia. It also provides sufficient
flexibility for individual states and territories, and the public and
private health sectors, to determine how they go about eHealth
implementation within a common framework and set of priorities to maximise
benefits and efficiencies.