ACT Health authorities are under pressure to publicly release more audits after it was revealed the directorate may have wrongly paid a series of invoices related to the digital health record.
The government is trying to determine what information it can release after the ACT Integrity Commission has confirmed it is investigating executives involved in the rollout of the project.
The directorate undertook a number of audits last year, including several into the digital health record.
The acting health boss told staff "a number" of internal audits would be publicly released over the coming weeks.
"The findings of those audits highlight failures in financial management that we, as a team, will need to face up to," ACT Health interim director-general Dave Peffer told staff.
An internal audit of invoices paid to a company hosting the territory's digital health record found a "significant risk" the directorate had wrongly paid for services.
The audit was prompted after the directorate received 118 invoices from NTT Ltd Australia in June 2023. The invoices totalled $7.9 million. There was $3.6 million paid during the month and the remaining $4.3 million was accrued.
The audit was publicly released on Wednesday. It was released as part of the budget estimates process.
The government also revealed ACT Health had undertaken eight audits last year. Six of the audits were part of a regular yearly program and the other two examined other invoices by ACT Health.
The invoices examined included travel and work hour invoices and credit card expenditure in the digital services division.
The opposition is putting pressure on the government to release these audits, with health spokeswoman Leanne Castley making the request in a letter to the Health Minister.
"Given that there has been hundreds of millions of Canberrans money spent on the digital health record I believe that Canberrans deserve full transparency from their Minster and government about other potential areas of blowout that have been examined either internally or externally," Ms Castley's letter said.
Health Minister Rachel Stephen-Smith said she was seeking advice about when and how the audits could be released given the corruption watchdog has announced it is investigating the matter.
"I will provide a comprehensive statement to the Legislative Assembly in the next sitting week and will table any relevant documents that can be released at that time," she said.
The ACT Integrity Commission released a statement late on Wednesday afternoon saying it was undertaking an investigation into the conduct of health executives involved in the delivery of the digital health records project.
The commission said no adverse inferences should be drawn about any individual while the commission conducted its investigation.
Mr Peffer is the chief executive of Canberra Health Services but has been acting as the ACT Health director-general since June 26 and has not been responsible for ACT Health's rollout of the system.
ACT Health's digital services division, which is responsible for delivering the health record, has suffered from cultural issues.
A culture survey revealed staff reported an unsustainable workload, burnout and poor treatment. Staff were worried about a lack of transparency around training and recruitment processes and there had been negative effects on staff wellbeing with "many instances of tears".
The results were released under freedom of information but the directorate initially redacted most of the survey's negative findings. This was later overturned by the ACT Ombudsman.
