Following the ACRRM Member Budget Briefing in recent editions of Country Watch, the digital health team has provided further detail on the Federal Budget's impact on My Health Record - including the Australian Government's $598.3 million investment over two years from 2026–27 to drive a digitally connected healthcare system for all Australians.
This digital health investment measure will continue to operate the My Health Record system and deliver targeted initiatives to support more reliable and timely access to information for all Australians and their healthcare providers.
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$505.0 million to continue operating the My Health Record system and $4.7 million for the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner as the independent privacy regulator.
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$47.5 million to deliver the next phases of My Health Record ‘Share by Default’ requirements that will apply to prescribed and dispensed medicines information and GP Chronic Condition Management plans.
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$17.6 million to continue Sparked, Australia’s world-leading health information sharing data standards development program and deliver new use cases that support priority reforms, including new eReferral and GP Chronic Condition Management Plan standards.
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$20.2 million to connect the National Prescription Delivery Service to My Health Record, progressing the next stages of the National Medicines Record.
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$3.3 million to modernise the My Health Records Act 2012 in preparation for more dynamic and flexible national health information sharing.