The Australian Digital Health Agency (ADHA) has appointed Peter O’Halloran, the long-time CIO of ACT Health, as its next chief digital officer.
O’Halloran announced his appointment in a LinkedIn post, stating that he had considered moving away from healthcare but the opportunity to work with exceptional technologists, clinicians, public servants, and healthcare consumers to improve health outcomes for citizens was too exhilarating to resist.
One of O’Halloran’s first responsibilities will be overseeing the delivery of My Health Record as an iOS and Android app.
The ADHA has also created a director of enterprise architecture position to support its national infrastructure modernisation program, which began in 2020 when the agency first moved to replace the Oracle API gateway behind My Health Record.