Foreword

Meegan Fitzharris MLA
Meegan Fitzharris MLA
Minister for Health and Wellbeing

I am delighted to present the ACT Health Directorate Digital Health Strategy 2019-2029.

This document outlines ACT Health Directorate’s strategic vision for enabling and delivering exemplary person-centred care through digital innovation.

We live in an increasingly digital world, and this provides exciting opportunities to improve the way healthcare services are delivered to our community through new innovative ideas. Investing in modern technology across the ACT’s health system is critical to supporting healthcare professionals to providing contemporary, holistic care. Equally important to this is empowering people receiving healthcare, with ease of access to and the ability to manage their own healthcare information through appropriate systems.

This strategy sets a strong vision for ensuring delivery of world-class, contemporary healthcare. In conjunction with stakeholders across the ACT, Australia and internationally, the strategy aims to learn from the experiences faced by others and deliver the most advanced and highly acclaimed technology solutions.

This strategy is integrally linked with the ACT Health Quality Strategy 2018-2028. Both of these strategies ensure that the ACT Health Directorate is striving to facilitate the highest standards of quality care that is person-centred, safe and effective. The Digital Health Strategy also strongly supports the ACT Health Territory Wide Health Strategy 2019-2029, outlining opportunities to integrate new technology and innovation directly into patient care to improve the quality and safety of healthcare delivery.

The development of the Digital Health Strategy has been completed in consultation with ACT Health Directorate, Canberra Health Services and Calvary Public Hospital Bruce staff, health professional organisations, colleges, societies and health consumer representative groups. This strategy is essential in the vision it provides for change in the delivery of care and access to critically important information.

I look forward to seeing the innovation that can be delivered across our public health services that the ACT Health Directorate delivers through this strategy. This will lead to improved health outcomes for our community as a result of the ability to improve access to information and provision of continuity of healthcare in the ACT.

Meegan Fitzharris MLA
Minister for Health and Wellbeing

May 2019

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