Former NHS England director of information Tim Kelsey has been appointed CEO of the new Australian Digital Health Agency (ADHA), which took over the role of the defunct National E-Health Transition Authority (NEHTA) and as system operator of the My Health Record on July 1.

Mr Kelsey, who arrived in Australia at the end of last year and began working with Telstra Health as commercial and strategy director in February, is a former journalist who helped launch the Good Hospital Guide in the late 1990s and went on to co-found the Dr Foster health analytics firm that Telstra Health bought last year.