The National E-Health Transition Authority Strategic Plan (2009-2012)
The NEHTA Strategic Plan outlines how we will fulfil our mission to lead the progression of e-health in Australia.
The release of the Government’s National E-Health Strategy in December 2008 outlined four major strategic streams of activity: foundations, e-health solutions, change and adoption, governance.
We have considered our future work program based on the National Strategy and other important work completed this year including the National Health and Hospital Reform Commission recommendations.
As a result the NEHTA Strategic Plan has been developed to clearly show our stakeholders across the health sector the directions we are taking to drive the take-up and adoption of e-health nationally.
The Strategy outlines four strategic priorities that define our role in adoption and implementation. They are:
1. Urgently develop the essential foundations required to enable e-health. This priority stresses the need to deliver essential e-health services such as Healthcare Identifiers, secure messaging and authentication, and a clinical terminology and information service. These will form the backbone of Australia’s e-health systems.
2. Coordinate the progression of the priority e-health solutions and processes. Some e-health solutions and processes provide the greatest opportunity to improve health practice and deliver benefit. Priorities include referrals and discharge, pathology and diagnostic imaging and medications management.
3. Accelerate the adoption of e-health. It is critical to increase the awareness and uptake of e-health initiatives by the various stakeholder groups, through collaboration and communication programs, incentives and implementation support.
4. Lead the progression of e-health in Australia. This priority reflects that NEHTA has a significant role in leading the direction of the current and future state of e-health in Australia, including future initiatives and the impacts on privacy and policy.
As the NEHTA Strategy is now publicly available, all feedback is welcome.
See below to read the NEHTA Strategic Plan (2009–2012)
NEHTA Strategic Plan (2009 -2012)