The diagnostic imaging (DI) sector is set to pick up where it left off in 2014 on work to get radiology reports uploaded to the My Health Record system and available to consumers and healthcare providers, with a longer term aim of developing the interoperable digital infrastructure needed to enable access to the images as well.

Earlier this month, the Australian Digital Health Agency (ADHA) convened a new diagnostic imaging program steering committee co-chaired by the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists' (RANZCR) informatics representative Nick Ferris, who also worked on the National E-Health Transition Authority (NEHTA) group that completed a specification in 2014 for uploading radiology reports in PDF format.