The new Australian Digital Health Agency (ADHA) will have an operating budget of $156.5 million in its first year, the bulk coming from the federal government, and will be required to submit a work program for the coming two years to the COAG Health Council in October 2016, according to the 2016 budget papers.
The agency, which has been structured differently from its predecessor NEHTA and is accounted for separately from the Department of Health, will receive $110.3m from the federal government in its first year along with an equity injection of $10.6m for a total annual appropriation from the Commonwealth of $120.89m.
