In order to understand the latest progress of health decision support system (HDSS) construction, grasp the law of HDSS development and adopt the international advanced experience, this paper took Australia for example, presented a comparative analysis on the construction practices, including the contents, features and system functions of national construction guidelines for HDSS in different periods, and showed the integral development level of Australia HDSS was still in the exploratory stage, and its construction goal, function orientation and construction mechanism got improved gradually with the deep development of public health information. Additionally, to assure the accuracy and safety of HDSS function, Australia has been laying stress on the standard specification construction and system function authentication.
E-health is regarded as a strategic tool to achieve a human-oriented integrated service model. This study introduced the e-health framework of the World Health Organization, and conducted a comparative study of the different e-health development characteristics in the United Kingdom, United States, Australia, Canada and other countries. Based on the results, we analyzed the practical problems in e-health development in China, and suggested possible policy approaches for strategies of e-health development to support the policy of e-health development in China.