This report provides an overview of the outcomes of a stakeholder workshop exploring the potential of digital health technologies.

This strategy is the product of detailed consultation and co-production with patients, consumers and carers – and the healthcare professionals, industry, organisations and innovators who serve them. It draws on evidence of clinical and economic benefit from many sources within Australia and overseas.

Australia needs to embrace digital health technologies and focus on data integration and standardisation.

This report offers a multiplicity of proposed recommendations for meeting the data analytic talent gap and achieving greater institutional readiness without full-time hiring. These recommendations complement those made by the Health Foundation in its December 2016 focused on improved training and cross-organisational teams to enhance data analytical insight.

In July 2013 Tinder Foundation and NHS England began the three-year Widening Digital Participation programme, aiming to help more than 220,000 people improve their digital health skills. There is a huge crossover between those who are digitally excluded, and those at risk of poor health and the project aimed to provide people with digital skills...