eHealth

AHIC Communique March 2008

AHIC E-Health Future Directions Briefing Paper

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The AHIC eHealth Future Directions Briefing Paper was considered by the Australian Health Ministers Advisory Council at the end of 2007 and the Australian Health Ministers’ Conference in early 2008, and is now available for public release.

The Briefing Paper was produced following the AHIC eHealth Future Directions Summit on 18/19 June 2007 and subsequent meetings of the Council. The summit was attended by members of AHIC and the National Health Information Management Principal Committee (NHIMPC).

The Briefing Paper provides the following key recommendations:

1. That a comprehensive eHealth strategy be developed;
2. That there is recognition that eHealth is the cost of doing business in the 21st century healthcare that will require continuity of investment and development of products and hardware;
3. That there is recognition that Jurisdictions have many of the necessary eHealth components already that can be enhanced by a system of knowledge exchange;
4. That a time limited function/body be responsible for building upon existing work and integrating eHealth nationally;
5. That a core set of functioning components of an Australian SEHR should be operating across Australia by 2012; and
6. That an implementation plan and resources schedule be developed to deliver the AHMAC national eHealth Strategy.