National eHealth strategy progress in Australia

National eHealth strategy progress in Australia

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For more than a decade Australia has been looking to establishing a national eHealth system. After many reviews, reports and an estimated A$5 billion expended on various eHealth initiatives, the country is no closer to realisation of a national approach to eHealth. Vendors selling into this market are advised to remain focused on local and regional opportunities rather than waiting for a mythical national eHealth gravy train to leave the station.

Contents

• Overview
• in A Nutshell
• Executive Overview
• IT Is A Challenge to See The Wood for The Trees
• The Size of The Australian Health Sector
• National-Level Ehealth Governance Bodies
• Ehealth Strategy Documents Are on The Table
• Two Schools of Thought on The Health Record
• Progress, Though Slow, on Individual Healthcare Identifiers
• Disappointment at Coag
• The National Broadband Network Is Unlikely to Accelerate Ehealth in The near Term
• Ehealth Therefore Remains A Local and Regional Game in Australia for The Foreseeable Future
• The Australian Health Sector Structure
• Health Sector Structure
• Expenditure and Funding
• Health Sector by The Numbers
• Governance Mechanisms
• Government Policy and Ehealth
• National Ehealth Strategy
• National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission Recommendations Relating to Ehealth
• Nehta and Its Role in The Ehealth Strategy Agenda
• Nehta's Proposed Role
• The Road to Implementation
• Funding The Ehealth Agenda
• Nhhrc Costings
• Deloitte Ehealth Strategy Costings:
• An Instructive Example: The Case of Nsw Health
• Electronic Health Records
• Two Schools of Thought on The Health Record
• The Health-Practitioner-Controlled Record
• The Person-Controlled Health Record
• The Need for A Unique Identifier
• Council of Australian Governments Meeting
• Ehealth and The National Broadband Network
• Acknowledgements
• Sources
• List of Tables
  • Table 1: Numbers employed in health occupations in Australia, 2006
  • Table 2: Cost estimates - foundations work stream
  • Table 3: Cost estimates - solutions work stream
  • Table 4: Cost estimates - change and adoption work stream
  • Table 5: Cost estimates - governance work stream
  • Table 6: Proposed priority eHealth solutions

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