QUESTIONS ON NOTICE › National E-Health Transition Authority (Question No. 535)
Senator Ludwig: 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