UnitingCare Queensland executive director Richard Royle, former AMA president Steve Hambleton and rural GP Ewen McPhee are set to be announced as three members of a steering committee being set up to oversee the transition of eHealth operations from NEHTA and the Department of Health to a new Australian Commission for eHealth (ACeH).

The committee will also include at least one jurisdictional health department CIO and one director-general, understood to be the Northern Territory's Stephen Moo and Queensland Health D-G Michael Walsh.