Former NSW Health director-general Robyn Kruk has been appointed as the independent chair of the steering committee for the taskforce charged with setting up the Australian Commission for eHealth, joining what has been greeted as a pleasing number of seasoned practitioners with real experience of eHealth and health IT implementations on the committee.

In addition to federal Department of Health special advisor and former CIO Paul Madden, the committee includes Stephen Moo, CIO of the Northern Territory Department of Health, and Michael Walsh, currently director-general of Queensland Health and a former eHealth NSW CEO/CIO.