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The purpose of this document is to recommend a standards approach that will deliver the most effective support for the broad range of e-health information interchange requirements in Australia, including a national approach to shared electronic health records.

This document has been superseded. The new fact sheet can be viewed and downloaded from here.

A fact sheet that introduces NEHTA's work in developing the Shared Electronic Health Record design.

NEHTA is seeking to identify appropriate standards which can be used as a commonly agreed framework for collecting, organising, accessing and using Shared EHR information. It therefore commissioned DH4 Pty Ltd to carry out a consultancy review which:

• Reviews standards being developed around the world to define the structure and content of Shared EHR information;
• Assesses their utility and potential impact on future Australian developments; and
• Identifies and recommends the most appropriate standards for sharing EHR information in the Australian health sector.

The review is primarily focussed on standards for specifying the structure, representation and interchange of Shared EHR information and complements other NEHTA work on EHR design, standard clinical terminologies, clinical information modelling, systems interoperability, secure communications and the identification of individuals and providers.

The following is the result of our national opinion poll on public response to an Individual Electronic Health Record.

This report provides a summary of feedback and discussion following an extensive consultation period conducted by NEHTA on benefits and drivers for an Individual Electronic Health Record IIEHR).

NEHTA conducted two Clinician and Consumer Roundtable sessions in June 2008. One in Brisbane (5 & 6 June) with an urban focus and one in Alice Springs (11 & 12 June) discussing issues relating to a rural and remote context. A Peak Body Summit was also held in Canberra (18 June). The aim of the Summit was to present and validate the key recommendations from the Roundtables in Brisbane and Alice Springs. In total, over 150 people attended the sessions. The objectives of the sessions were to consult with Clinicians and Consumers on the benefits, drivers and acceptance of eHealth, specifically, the:

• Purpose and benefits of unique consumer and provider identification;
• Purpose and benefits of the IEHR;
• Privacy of information held within the Unique Healthcare Identifier (UHI) Service and IEHR service;
• Type of information held within a IEHR (including clinician and consumer views on sensitive information);
• Access to and participation in the UHI Service and IEHR service;
• Governance of the IEHR Service;
• Consent arrangements to establish and authorise access to the UHI Service and IEHR Service; and
• Secondary uses of the UHI and IEHR information.