The paper highlights key funding priorities essential to supporting the continued growth of the medical software industry and improving healthcare outcomes across Australia. It sets out key issues and recommendations for each federal government portfolio. It identifies a set of priority actions that include a summary of cost, budget impact, benefits and timeline.

Priorities

• Facilitate the speed of health interoperability
• Procurement reform
• Implementation and training support
• Artificial intelligence regulation
• Conformance versus efficiency
• Online Prescription Authorities (OPAs)
• Health-software accelerators
• Data governance
• Medicare digital incentives