The Health Informatics Society of Australia (HISA) has released a draft of Australia's first professional practice standard for eSafety, aimed at assuring patient safety in the implementation of eHealth.

While Australia has yet to get to the litigation stage over patient harms caused by a health IT system, issues such as the development of software as a medical device and the acknowledgement that IT safety, like IT security, should be primary rather than an afterthought have led to the development of guidelines for health informaticians and organisations on standards for professional practice.