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National Digital Health Strategy

The National Digital Health Strategy 2023-2028 is a 5-year plan that sets the vision and pathway for Australia’s digital health future.

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Outcomes

The National Digital Health Strategy aims to achieve 4 key outcomes, improving Australia's health system in the process.

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Strategy Delivery Roadmap

The Strategy Delivery Roadmap sets out key initiatives for delivery over 5 years, aligned with 4 outcomes and 12 priority areas.

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Partners

Partners are key to the successful and effective implementation of the strategy and roadmap.

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Moving forward together

Australians are ready to transform their health and wellbeing through digital solutions. Together, we’re building an inclusive, sustainable and digitally enabled healthcare system for all.

Vision

"Creating an inclusive, sustainable and healthier future for all Australians through a connected and digitally enabled health system."

Digital Health has the potential to help people overcome healthcare challenges such as equitable access, chronic disease management and prevention and the increasing costs of healthcare. By enhancing the use of digital technologies and data, it enables informed decision-making, providing people better access to their health information when and where they need it, improved quality of care, and personalised health outcomes.

Australia's National Digital Health Strategy, supported by a Strategy Delivery Roadmap, 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.

It will achieve this through consistent and ongoing national effort across 4 change enablers which, in turn, support delivery of 4 key health system outcomes identified for Australia’s health system.

This is a national strategy for all, developed in consultation with all Australian governments, consumers, healthcare providers and the software industry, and with the aim to deliver an inclusive, sustainable and healthier future for all Australians through a connected and digitally enabled health system.

Health system outcomes

Digitally enabled outcome - Ensuring that health and wellbeing services are connected, safe, secure and sustainable. Smiling female hospital staff member in dark blue uniform
Digitally enabled

Digitally enabled

Creating health and wellbeing services that are connected, safe, secure and sustainable.

Person-centred outcome - Empowering Australians to look after their health and wellbeing and equipped with the right information and tools. Smiling female hospital staff member wearing hijab in dark blue uniform
Person-centred

Person-centred

Ensuring Australians are empowered to look after their health and wellbeing and equipped with the right information and tools.

Inclusive outcome - Equitable access to health services for Australians, when and where they need them. Two young girls both dressed in pink and with glasses, leaning in together, smiling girl facing camera with special needs in wheelchair
Inclusive

Inclusive

Providing Australians with equitable access to health services, when and where they need them.

Data-driven outcome - Readily available data to inform decision making about individuals, communities and national issues. Female (of Asian appearance) in hospital surgical room setting with mask and dressed in surgical scrubs, with five female and male surgical staff members blurred in background
Data-driven

Data-driven

Ensuring data is readily available and informs decision making about individuals, communities and national issues.

Change enablers

Change enablers

View the enablers that drive the strategy outcomes.

Strategy Delivery Roadmap

Strategy Delivery Roadmap

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Priorities and initiatives

Priorities and initiatives

Examine the priority areas and initiatives for each outcome.