Telstra Health will bring Canadian-based Smile Digital Health’s health data and data integration platform to Australia and New Zealand.
This comes as part of a recently signed strategic partnership between the two companies, which aims to accelerate interoperability and secure information exchange in local health and aged care settings.
Based on HL7 FHIR standards and clinical quality language. Smile data The platform enables seamless data aggregation, care gap analysis, and clinical data analysis across multiple points of care.
Why is it important?
The Australian Federal Government, through the Australian Digital Health Agency (ADHA), We are working with HL7 Australia to consistently implement digital health standards, specifically FHIR, across the country’s health system. ADHA is also working with CSIRO to deliver new terminology services and capabilities through the National Clinical Terminology Service. These collaborations will contribute to the Government’s goal of delivering Australia’s more connected health system by 2027 under the National Health Interoperability Plan.
Telstra Health is lending a hand in this mission. Partnered with Smile. In a statement, it said the partnership supports Australia’s obligation to share critical health information across healthcare settings. Through Smile’s FHIR native platform, Telstra Health will “enable public health authorities to support population health analysis,” Smile CEO Duncan Weatherston added.
Established player in healthcare Interoperability, Smile Sueport A wide range of FHIR and clinical reasoning requirements for federal agencies, universities, HIE companies, and private businesses worldwide. Its partners include the World Health Organization, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. We have also supported the Michigan Health Information Network Sharing Service, which serves more than 13 million patients.
bigger trends
“At Telstra Health, we believe the FHIR standard will become even more prevalent in emerging and future care models,” Jane Gilbert, Telstra Health’s integration lead for enterprise technology, said in the company’s recent blog entry. I am.
Telstra Health first adopted the FHIR standard in 2016 when it was incorporated into its Enterprise Provider Directory.It was then implemented across digital products It also includes services such as GP management software Helix, the National Cancer Screening Register and, more recently, the Virtual Health Platform and Kyra patient management system launched last year.
The health IT company has also worked closely with the Department of Health and Aged Care, the Australian Digital Health Agency and CSIRO on the development of FHIR, SNOMED CT-AU and Australian pharmaceutical terminology. As an HL7 Australian Gold Member, Telstra Health is He was also involved in the national implementation of the International Patient Overview, a project of the World Health Information Standardization Joint Initiative Council.
