Appendix: Major digital project lists

Response to the Final Report of the Capability Review of the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission – cyber uplift

Cyber Uplift Phase 3 has commenced in July 2025 with focus on Maturity uplift and Transition covering the following projects:

1. Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) / Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) / Centralised Log Ingestion (CLI) Foundations
2. Cyber Governance – Beyond Foundations
3. Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) Review and targeted uplift
4. Vulnerability Management - Beyond Foundations
5. Application Control Capability Implementation
6. Vulnerability Scanning Capability Implementation
7. Integrated Security Architecture
    

Investing in a modernised My Health Record to drive a digitally connected healthcare system for all Australians 

The project will establish a new national repository service to improve the My Health Record system, aligned with the contemporary health industry data standard Health Level 7 (HL7) Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR). This will drive a digitally connected healthcare system for all Australians, and supports use of mobile apps, in line with the National Digital Health Strategy 2023–2028. The vision is to enable a contemporary capability for My Health Record, as a foundation for the healthcare modernisation journey, which will increase value to customers and healthcare providers accessing data.

Ensuring Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety for All Australians 

Phase 1 (completed) developed a self-service portal to enable customers of the agency’s Personal Radiation Monitoring Service to access a range of online capabilities to enhance the customer experience. 

Phase 2 (underway) is developing a laboratory information management system to improve internal workflow efficiency.

Aged Care Transformation Program – New Aged Care Act 

This project involves the design and delivery of the business and digital projects requirements to support the implementation and operationalisation of the Aged Care Act 2024.

2026 Medium-High

2025 Medium-Low

Aged Care Transformation Program – Support at Home

A new program called Support at Home brings together some in-home aged care programs from 1 November 2025. Under the Support at Home program, there will be improved access to services, products, equipment and home modifications to help older people to remain healthy, active, and socially connected to their community.

2026 Medium-High

2025 Low

2024 Medium-Low

Establishing an Australian Centre for Disease Control (CDC)

This project presents a 3-pronged approach to establishing data capability for the Australian CDC. This includes: exploratory work for a national public health surveillance system; design of nationally-consistent public health data, analytics and decision-support through a Public Health Data Network (Data Network); introduction of a public health data stewardship function to facilitate national coordination in public health action; and the development of in-house capabilities for advanced analytics within the Australian CDC to provide timely, accurate decision-support across CDC functions.

Next Phase of the National Disability Data Asset (NDDA)

The project will establish an enduring NDDA of linked, de-identified data, leveraging multiple Australian, state and territory government service systems and surveys to provide insights on the outcomes of people with disability and their pathways through services.

2026 Medium

2025 Medium

2024 Medium

One Stop Shop for Clinical Trials and Human Research

The development of the National One Stop Shop ICT platform underpins the Australian Government’s health and medical policy reform agenda. The platform will provide a single, end-to-end workflow for the research lifecycle of first contact between a research sponsor and a research site, through pre- and post-ethical approval and authorisation processes, regulatory requirements, participant recruitment and research management, to post-research monitoring and the publication of results. The common workflow will facilitate business processes of key Commonwealth agencies, and the next generation World Health Organization (WHO) compliant clinical trials and research registry, to provide a public-facing website with simplified and enhanced search functionality for the community. The reforms are supported by commitment between all jurisdictions under the Revitalised Clinical Trials Agenda, and the Encouraging More Clinical Trials in Australia measure, and agreement on the platform solution that will streamline and harmonise administration and regulation nationally, and make it easier to find and conduct health and medical research.

Alternative Clinical Arrangements for Facilities Unable to Meet a Registered Nurse Onsite Requirement

This project developed and tested a Virtual Nursing Framework in 30 residential aged care homes. Evaluation of the project will build evidence on use of virtual nursing in residential aged care settings.

Continued COVID-19 support for aged care

The primary goal of this project was to continue a range of COVID-19 outbreak management supports. The digital/ICT component funding was secured to implement a new Emergency Management Portal to replace the existing COVID-19 Support Portal. Discovery and design and re-costing for the project resulted in the decision that the project was no longer value for money and it did not proceed beyond this phase.

Enhanced Regulatory Model for Vaping Products

The project is implementing an enhanced regulatory model for vaping, to regulate the importation, domestic manufacture, supply, commercial possession and advertisement of vaping goods, including nicotine vaping products. The reforms are part of a broader effort to reduce smoking and vaping rates through stronger legislation, enforcement, education and support.
 

The primary goal of the digital component is to uplift digital processes to support the new vaping reform legislation. The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) introduced a bespoke sponsor notification scheme to facilitate lawful access to therapeutic vapes. The project will support the digital infrastructure to enable sponsors to provide compliance declarations to the TGA in a timely manner and enhance systems to enable staff to conduct post-market reviews and manage compliance priorities.

As part of efforts to address black market vape sales, the TGA is currently investigating enhancements of existing compliance management systems and greater data sharing capacity with partner law enforcement agencies (such as Australian Border Force).

Establish a National Worker Registration Scheme for Aged Care

This project is enabling the government’s commitment to establish a national worker registration scheme. The project includes delivery of an ICT solution that expands the existing National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) worker screening system to include aged care worker screening. The expanded ICT system will create a national approach to worker screening for aged care providers, with ongoing monitoring of exclusion to better protect older people.

Funding Digital Capability and Sustainment of Aged Care Systems – My Health Record (MHR) Integration

The investment was to finalise the delivery of an integrated solution, allowing the sharing of aged care information with the health sector via My Health Record.

Funding for the Regulation of Medicinal Cannabis – Cost Recovery Model Update and Office of Drug Control Business Transformation

The project supports the transformation of the Office of Drug Control business processes and ICT/digital systems. Prior reliance on outdated and inefficient manual business processes impacted Australia’s legal narcotics industry. This project will implement the outcomes of a 2022 review, to modernise systems to ensure they can support the industry and compliance activity, as well as aligning with other regulators’ digital transformation systems.

Integrated Aged Care Information and Intelligence – Risk Based Targeting and Information Sharing (RBTIS)

The department has developed a RBTIS program of work to enable the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission to better target its regulation of aged care providers (both residential aged care and home care) that are at risk of failing to provide quality care. The system achieves this by extracting different data elements from over a dozen major sources into information sharing dashboards.

Residential Aged Care – Linking Care Funding to Care Minute Delivery

This project will create a financial incentive for residential aged care providers to meet their mandatory care minutes targets by linking care minutes funding to care minutes delivery from 1 October 2025 in Modified Monash 1 (MM1) areas. To deliver this project, changes are required in aged care systems owned by the department and Services Australia, to add needed calculations and data fields to existing reporting tools. Linking funding to care delivery is the most effective, equitable and efficient policy lever available to government to bring about behaviour change from providers and is estimated to deliver a cumulative increase of 265 million more care minutes by the end of the forward estimates. It also ensures that government is not funding providers for care they are not delivering.

Setting the in Australian National Aged Care Classification (AN ACC) price for 2023–24 and ongoing residential care funding reform

This investment will support implementation of the government’s election commitment to fund the Fair Work Commission (FWC) decision for residential care aged care workers, and the annual adjustment in AN ACC funding to account for changes in aged care costs such as inflation. Necessary adjustments to the AN ACC referral, assessment and reporting functions in addition to a new hotelling supplement are also included. Progress is monitored by the Residential Aged Care Funding Reform Program Board.

Reduce Waste and Combat Fraud – Crack Down on Fraud

The Crack Down on Fraud program will boost fraud-detecting IT systems to better protect monies allocated to Australians living with disability who are on the NDIS. The investment will complement the work of the Fraud Fusion Taskforce to respond to areas of vulnerability in NDIS systems. The program includes a number of ICT improvements that will be implemented progressively and are designed to make it easier to get it right, and harder to get it wrong for everyone engaging with the NDIS.

2026 High

2025 Medium

Data and Regulatory Transformation (DART) Program

The DART Program will transform the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission data and technology systems to support new ways of working that will sustainably address issues experienced by NDIS participants, providers and workers. The DART Program aims to establish essential, risk-based regulatory capabilities that meet the Commission’s current and future legislative obligations, safeguard participants, ensure market quality and proactively manage compliance.

2026 Medium

2025 Medium

Establish the Inspector-General of Aged Care and the Office of the Inspector-General of Aged Case as a Statutory Agency

This project has established the Office of the Inspector General of Aged Care (OIGAC), following a recommendation from the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety. The project includes delivery of ICT platforms and processes to ensure the OIGAC has the foundational infrastructure to support its function, with work split across 4 key workstreams:

• Stream 1 Case Management
• Stream 2 Shared Services
• Stream 3 Website
• Stream 4 Data and Analytics.