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Government Initiatives
Government initiatives
There are many programs and initiatives which involve the goal of building capability for the ever-evolving digital health landscape. This has been outlined in the Australian National Digital Health Strategy 
.
The Capability Action Plan
“The Capability Action Plan presents the priority actions that are required to effectively build digital health capability across the health workforce to respond to the needs of consumers now and in the future.”
(Australian Digital Health Agency, 2021).
Education & training to enable the health workforce to upskill and adopt digital
Regulation to require the inclusion of digital health in regulated health education
Collaboration to promote a shared digital culture and continuous learning
Why do we need to build digital health capability?
The benefits of a digitally capable workforce delivers
✚ improved ability to diagnose, treat and manage health conditions
✚ reduction in clinical risk, including minimisation of adverse drug events
✚ improved patients flow and sharing of information throughout the health system
✚ enablement of care outside of hospital settings, in the community or at home
✚ increased transparency of healthcare
✚ improved population health management
✚ improved operation efficiencies
To deliver the benefits of digital health, the health workforce can apply the following:
❮ confident use of technologies
❮ application of data science, enabling evidence-based decision making and informed planning
❮ systems supporting workflow management and team design and collaboration
❮ improved information sharing, accessibility and security
❮ ability to create strong business cases and provide evidence of benefits
The benefits of a digitally capable workforce delivers
✚ improved ability to diagnose, treat and manage health conditions
✚ reduction in clinical risk, including minimisation of adverse drug events
✚ improved patients flow and sharing of information throughout the health system
✚ enablement of care outside of hospital settings, in the community or at home
✚ increased transparency of healthcare
✚ improved population health management
✚ improved operation efficiencies
To deliver the benefits of digital health, the health workforce can apply the following:
❮ confident use of technologies
❮ application of data science, enabling evidence-based decision making and informed planning
❮ systems supporting workflow management and team design and collaboration
❮ improved information sharing, accessibility and security
❮ ability to create strong business cases and provide evidence of benefits
An initial program of work has been completed addressing foundational components which apply to the general health Workforce, these include The Nursing and Midwifery (PDF) and Australian Digital Health Capability Framework, Quality in Data and its importance in connecting and linking care guideline, Digital Health Readiness Framework and Career Pathways Model underpin the ongoing development of digital health practice and capability.
Other government resources
Digital health eLearning resources : Australian Digital Health Agency (the ‘Agency’)
Digital Health : Australian Institute of Health & Welfare
Health Technologies & Digital Health : Department of Health & Ageing
Impact of Digital Health on the Safety & Quality of Healthcare : Australian Commission on Quality & Safety in Healthcare