The CCeH has been founded on a collaborative model in order to enhance the ability to draw from a wide range of interests and expertise of the different stakeholders of the Australian and local health system. Contributors to the CCeH program include:

• University of Ballarat (Institute for Rural & Regional Research, School of IT and Mathematical Sciences, School of Nursing)
• Australian Medical Association
• Australian Divisions of General Practice
• Ballarat & District Division of General Practice
• Ballarat Health Services
• Medical Software Industry Association

Activities that CCeH has undertaken in collaboration include:

• Facilitation of a Scoping Study and Round Table Workshop with medical professionals on behalf of the Australian Medical Association to promote the implementation and uptake of information management and technology in the medical profession.

• Facilitating a Workshop with medical software vendors in collaboration with Pen Computer Systems and the Commonwealth’s Department of Health and Ageing to identify and address technical architectural, interoperability and Standards issues in relation to the development of Decision Support software and its seamless integration into other medical software applications. 

• Facilitating an inaugural Round Table on behalf of the Medical Software Industry Association to collect information on the wide-ranging initiatives and projects being progressed in healthcare information management and technology that will require software company participation and/or software changes and additions.  The Round Table aimed to identify the number of initiatives, their timelines and their potential demands on software companies, as well as arrive at agreement that new mechanisms are necessary to avoid conflicts and derive synergistic and realistic scheduling.

• Partnering a bid in the Cooperative Research Centre for eHealthcare (CRCEH), formed under the Commonwealth Government's Cooperative Research Centres (CRC) Program. The eight universities collaborating in the bid were the Universities of Queensland, New South Wales, Ballarat, Monash, Sydney, Woollongong, South Australia and the James Cook University.

• Managing the Grampians Healthcare Region National Communications Fund Bid preparation process to propose funding in excess of $3 million for communications infrastructure for the Grampians Region, for healthcare support. The tender process was financially supported by the Grampians Hospitals IT Alliance and the CCeH.