NEHTA

The National E-Health Transition Authority Limited is a not-for-profit company established by the Australian Commonwealth, State and Territory governments to develop better ways of electronically collecting and securely exchanging health information, to:

Improve the quality of healthcare services, allowing clinicians to more easily access accurate and complete information about their patients
Streamline the care of people with long term illness, who need to be looked after by many different health professionals, by enabling seamless handovers of care through for example electronic referrals and discharge summaries.
Improve clinical and administrative efficiency, by standardising certain types of healthcare information to be recorded in electronic systems; uniquely identifying patients, healthcare providers and medical products; and reforming the purchasing process for medical products.

while maintaining high standards of patient privacy and information security.

OHT participation:

At the first OHT Board meeting, Andy Bond described NEHTA's approach to e-health.

At the second OHT Board meeting, NEHTA, along with IHTSDO and NHS, proposed a SNOMED CT Tooling project. See slides and charter.