Budget 2021-2022 - Digital health

These investments include:

• $301.8 million for the next wave of My Health Record (MHR), leveraging the connections already in place and ensuring a more coordinated healthcare future for Australia while also stimulating economic recovery from COVID-19.
• $87.5 million for operational funding for the Australian Digital Health Agency, with a focus on implementing lessons learnt from the COVID-19 pandemic to help improve system preparedness and responsiveness.
• $32.3 million for continued funding for the 2018–2022 Intergovernmental Agreement on National Digital Health (IGA). This will ensure interoperability within Australia’s national digital health infrastructure to deliver improvements to health system quality and safety, accountability, transparency and patient-centred healthcare.
• $45.4 million to roll out electronic medication charts in residential aged care facilities, drive utilisation and integration of MHR, and establish digital support for transitions between aged care and hospital settings.
• $36 million for streamlining reimbursement approvals for health products through the Health Products Portal (HPP). This change will allow the sector to digitally manage applications to the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee (PBAC), Medical Services Advisory Committee (MSAC), and the Prostheses List. This will create a streamlined application process and faster patient access to new therapies and treatments.