If You Want To Know Where The Australasian Digital Institute Is Heading This Might Be A Good Start!

This came to my attention last week:

F105 The state of healthcare digitalization in Australia (Louise Schaper, AIDH)

Australia was in the global digital health-related news in 2018 of the national EHR project called My Health Record. The idea behind the project was to digitize the medical records of all the people from Australia. Today, 9 out of 10 Australians have My Health Record.

Australia has a national digital health strategy, which predicts that by 2022 the essential, foundational elements of health information that can be safely accessed, easily utilized, and shared. According to dr. Louise Schaper, CEO of Australasian Institute of Digital Health, there's been a lot of government commitment to invest in digital health. When the strategy was written, the government established an organization called the National Health Transitional Authority, now called the Australian Digital Health Agency. “This is a government-funded organization whose sole responsibility is to advance digital health,” explains dr. Louise Schaper. Because the healthcare system in Australia relies heavily on community and health care consultation, the government put certain aspects of infrastructure in place. “We have a national identifier system in Australia. Every citizen that's getting health care has their own unique number just for that purpose. And then we also have another unique number that is for healthcare providers, as well. So that infrastructure is in place. That unique number can be used in whatever health IT systems that are being built and designed and implemented in healthcare.”

Here is the link:

https://www.facesofdigitalhealth.com/blog/f105-the-state-of-healthcare-digitalization-in-australia-louise-schaper-aidh

Passed on without comment although comments are more than welcome.

David.