Priorities and initiatives

2.1.01: Co-design, deliver, promote and participate in consumer digital health literacy programs and integrate with broader government digital literacy programs

2.1.02: Use guidelines, such as the Assessment Framework for mHealth Apps, when developing consumer facing digital health products that meet a range of consumer needs and levels of digital health literacy

2.1.03: Undertake research and evaluate effectiveness of digital health literacy programs to inform program development

2.1.04: Consider digital health literacy in national safety and quality standards

2.2.01: Develop a National Health Information Exchange Architecture and Roadmap that will establish the national technical infrastructure requirements and direction to enable consistent, secure, safe and discoverable near real-time sharing of health information across care settings, with consent, regardless of where the data is stored

2.2.02: Enable consumers, carers and healthcare providers to access key aged care information such as the aged care assessment summary in My Health Record

2.2.03: Enable key health information to be made easily available to support transfer of care between residential aged care and acute care settings

2.2.04: Support Real Time Prescription Monitoring (RTPM) to provide clinical decision making support for prescribers and dispensers

2.2.05: Deliver a Prescription Delivery Service that supports the ongoing uptake of electronic prescribing, the expanded use of electronic medication charts and the use of electronic prescribing for high-risk and high-cost medicines

2.2.06: Support the use and expansion of electronic prescribing, including the delivery of operational support such as incident management for the Prescription Delivery Service

2.2.07: Establish regulatory requirements and changes to national accreditation standards to require private and public healthcare providers to share information to My Health Record by default, starting with diagnostic imaging and pathology. This will include providing technical and registration support, education and training

2.2.08: Expand functionality and health information available in the my health app to better support consumers, such as structured pathology, electronic prescriptions, aged care transfer summaries and Medicare information

2.2.09: Engage consumers in co-design and improvements to digital health solutions such as my health app and My Health Record

2.2.10: Develop a roadmap to support the allied health sector and software vendors to upload clinical content to My Health Record

2.2.11: Implement widespread adoption and use of national healthcare identifiers for individuals, healthcare providers and healthcare provider organisations

2.2.12: Connect hospital clinical information systems to the National Health Information exchange

2.2.13: Enable pregnancy and child health information to be shared and accessed through national digital health infrastructure

2.2.14: Uplift the Pharmacist Shared Medicines List to enable structured medicines information to be discoverable and available in the My Health Record System

2.2.15: Share information by default to support multidisciplinary care, including aged care plans and GP management plans

2.3.01: Support secure information sharing by enhancing authentication services

2.3.02: Identify options to develop a national health legislative framework authorising health information sharing across care settings and borders

2.3.03: Implement system changes to store and manage individual and organisational healthcare provider details

2.3.04: Progress integration between the national digital identity solution and healthcare systems

2.3.05: Review and implement regulatory requirements for consent management for access and use of patient health information

2.3.06: Ensure service provider details in healthcare provider directories are accurate and kept up to date