Australian Digital Health Agency (ADHA) CEO Tim Kelsey has offered a mea culpa for the past mistakes of his agency's predecessor and promised to try to set things right in eHealth in Australia, accepting that digital health had been “oversold and under-delivered” but urging clinicians and the public not to pull the plug just yet.

Mr Kelsey told Pen Computer Systems' National PHN Conference in Sydney last week that the ADHA had targeted several priority programs, including the already announced focus on secure messaging interoperability, but also planned to “rapidly enhance” the My Health Record through a three-pronged approach that would make it more attractive to clinicians to use.