Joe Ludwig (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Manager of Government Business in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

The Minister for Health and Ageing has provided the following answer to the honourable senator's question:

There are a range of mechanisms by which the Department provides oversight of National E-Health Transition Authority (NEHTA) in relation to COAG funding.

The National Partnership Agreement on eHealth signed by COAG on 7 December 2009 sets out the $218 million funding being provided to NEHTA to 2012. The Australian Health Ministers' Conference (AHMC) has key oversight of NEHTA and its large work program to progress eHealth in Australia.

NEHTA's accountability to the Commonwealth is reflected in a funding agreement with the department. Under this agreement, the Department requires NEHTA's achievement of a range of key deliverables provided on a bi-monthly basis. Some deliverables contain several components and can be very technical in nature. Deliverables may include drafts to demonstrate NEHTA's progress being made and sometimes represent NEHTA's progress in a particular area, rather than achievement of a final outcome.

During 2009-10, NEHTA provided six reports to the Department covering a total of 52 deliverables.

The 52 deliverables were assessed and accepted by the Department. A list of the deliverables is provided:

1: Business Requirements for Northern Territory DHF

2: National Certification Capability for eHealth: Towards a Concept of Operations, discussion paper

3: Product design for NT DHF

4: Roadmap for Australian Medicines Terminology (AMT) activity

5: Core Electronic Transfer of Prescriptions (ETP) package supporting the GP to community pharmacy exchanges draft

6: Initial industry analysis for CCA Industry Test Capability

7: Decision on NEHTA involvement in test services and tool development

8: CCA Website operational and ready for PIP and other projects

9: PIP Conformance assessment scheme

10: Solutions Development for NT DHF (Release 1 - Build of Web Services application)

11: First Site Live (Communicare)

12: SNOMED CT R1 Approval

13: Clinical Terminologies strategic planning documents

14: First Site Live (PEN Sidebar)

15: Collaboration project support for NT DHF and DHS Victoria

16: PIP Connectivity technical architecture for clinical document delivery

17: Messaging from Communicare and PEN sidebar to SEHR

18: Interfaces (UHI and HSD) for Collaboration Partern project support - DHS Victoria

19: Expansion of National Product Catologue with 50 top vendors

20: Compliance and Conformance Assessment

21: Support completed for NEHTA collaboration projects

22: Enhanced compliance and conformance assessment methodology

23: QLD Health Alignment Study

24: NASH Options Board Paper

25: Business Blueprint reviewed by Stakeholder Reference Group

26: NEHTA Security and Access Framework Business Case

27: Go to Market Strategy issued to NEHTA Board

28: Extension of the National Product Catalogue with health jurisdictions

29: eReferrals Release 1 - Core draft for public comment

30: SNOMED CT AU Release 2 - Planning Phase

31: Core ETP Package supporting the GP to community pharmacy - Second draft for consultation

32: AMT in Cerner Multum product adoption in Victorian Hospitals

33: Formal Review of the Pathology Program

34: Production of a Concept of Operations for Pathology (draft for internal discussion)

35: Development of a Pathology Program Board Paper (NEHTA Board paper)

36: Current Medication List - Planning Stage deliverables for internal review

37: Production of a draft Briefing Paper pertaining to a Universal Description and Discovery Interchange (UDDI) based solution for Endpoint Location Service (ELS)

38: Initial planning for Stage Two of NT Department of Health and Families

39: Early Adopters Release

40: Expansion of National Product Catalogue with 60 top vendors

41: Expansion of National Product Catalogue with WA Health

42: ePathology Release 4 development

43: ePathology Release 5 roadmap (Jul-Dec 10)

44: Enhanced software tooling collaboration platform

45: SMD conformance test specifications and implementation conformance statement.

46: Establishment of the Test Interest Group (TIG)

47: eProcurement Message Implementation Guide (MIG) template and checklist

48: SNOMED CT AU Release 2 - End Stage Report - Release Phase

49: Development of a public version of an Implementation Plan for the Healthcare Identifiers Service

50: Review of existing Secure Messaging publications for currency

51: Example implementation software for SMD specifications

52: Updated and expanded NT Department of Health and Families e-Health roadmap