Shivakumar Kolachalam

Scuola Superiore di Studi Universitari e di Perfezionamento Sant'Anna, Pisa

Providing healthcare services to its citizens is government’s responsibility. Healthcare is an institution that meets some of society’s most critical needs and any member of the society, at sometime or other may avail these services. This paper (assuming that the six strands of e- Health are integrated together in Australia) attempts to give a comprehensive picture of the National e-Health framework with HealthConnect in place.
Keywords: e-EHR, e-Health, Medicare, CIS, IT-14, HL7, PKI, HeSA, Health Act 1953, Privacy Act 1998, Privacy Act 2000, National Health Privacy Code, National Provider Directory, ACOM, MediConnect, HealthConnect, Broadband.
Note: Some contents of this paper were presented at the public seminars- “Progress of e-Health in Australia: 20 years of achievement”, for the Health Informatics Society of Australia (HISA), at the Western Australian Department of Health, East Perth (WA) and “Reviewing the South Australian OACIS Model (Open Architecture Clinical Information System)”, for the Centre for Health Informatics Research and St John of God Health Care, at St John of God Health Care, Subiaco (WA).