Victoria’s Department of Health initiated the Digital Health Roadmap in 2021 as an effort to improve the safety and efficiency of Victoria’s healthcare system.

The Roadmap seeks to align with recommendations from the Royal Commission into Victoria’s Mental Health System’s Final Report, Volume 5: Transforming the system, and is designed to do this by integrating digital technology and using innovation to approach management of information.

The Roadmap was developed to:

• respond to the VAGO:
  • Clinical ICT systems reports in the Victorian public health sector (2013)
  • ICT strategic planning in the health sector (2017)
  • Security of patients’ hospital data (2019)
• respond to the digital health recommendations of Targeting zero (2016)
• uplift digital health maturity, as defined by the Victorian digital health maturity model
• support the following departmental strategic directions:
  • person-centred services and care
  • local solutions
  • prevention and early intervention
• advancing quality, safety and innovation.

The roadmap outlines five programs of work that seek to:

1. improve health services’ resilience against outages and cyber attacks
2. improve patient safety by replacing paper-based care processes
3. ensure health information follows the consumer, across care providers
4. create more home-based and virtual care choices
5. give consumers access to their own healthcare information.

The roadmap is to be fully implemented by all health services by 2025.

For further information visit the Victoria Department of Health website.