National digital health initiatives
Queensland Health actively participates in national digital health initiatives and leverages national infrastructure to facilitate the seamless flow of patients through the health system.
Australia's digital health infrastructure
National digital infrastructure underpins several Queensland Health's digital health initiatives, including:
- National healthcare identifiers
Reliably and consistently identify individual patient, healthcare providers, and healthcare organisations. - National authentication services for health
Authenticate users, including people and organisations, through the use of digital certificates to safely share and manage access to information in the healthcare system. - Clinical terminologies
Accurately describe the care and treatment of patients to enable the safe and unambiguous exchange of clinical information between healthcare providers. - National health services directory
A directory to enable health professionals and consumers to access reliable and consistent information about health services. See Find a health service to use the directory. - Digital Health Standards
Agreed national standards and specifications for consistent communication of clinical information across care settings (e.g., use of the electronic discharge summary specification).
Australia's national digital health strategy
Australia’s National Digital Health Strategy 2023—2028 was develop in consultation with all Australian governments, consumers, healthcare providers and the software industry. The National Digital Health Strategy, which outlines 7 strategic priority outcomes for digital health, can be found on the Australian Digital Health Agency website.
The Strategy is supported by a Strategy Delivery Roadmap and places people at the centre of a connected and digitally enabled healthcare system. It sets a vision and pathway to better serve the needs of Australians today, and into the future, by creating a more connected, person-centred digital health system and realising the benefits digital technology offers individuals, the community, governments, industry and providers.
National electronic health records
The Australian Government’s My Health Record system provides a secure online summary of an individual’s health information—available to all Australians. Further information is available at My Health Record, or via the national helpline at 1800 723 471.
For further information on Queensland Health’s current participation in the My Health Record system, refer to Queensland Health's My Health Record website.