The Australian Digital Health Agency (ADHA) recently announced it was funding a number of children's digital health initiatives, including a national child health record, adding school immunisation records to the national register, developing a pregnancy digital health record and digitising child health check data so it can be shared electronically.
Led by eHealth NSW and the Sydney Children's Hospitals Network (SCHN) under the auspices of the National Children’s Digital Health Collaborative, the idea is to kick off the four pilot projects in the next couple of years, which will then help inform the fifth initiative: a longitudinal digital child health record that could have far-reaching implications for the future health and wellbeing of Australian children as they grow into adulthood.
