Telstra Health Smart Clinician wins Business and Industry award at NSW iAwards 

Hosted by the Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA), the annual iAwards unearths, recognises and rewards excellence in Australian innovation that is making a difference and has the potential to create positive change for the community.  

Now in its 31st year, the iAwards is the longest running and most broadly scoped innovation recognition program in Australia.  

“Smart Clinician offers a smarter approach to practice software that not only empowers medical professionals to streamline their practice management, but also helps to overcome clinical trial bottlenecks,” said Louise Ryves, General Manager of Ecosystem at Telstra Health.

“Patients, regardless of geographic location, can now be informed of and participate in clinical trials and contribute to the generation of new evidence via their regular care provider, which helps to accelerate translation of health research into the community to ultimately benefit all Australians. The team and I are proud to be recognised for the way in which this solution is contributing to improved health outcomes,” she said.

After taking home the state award, Telstra Health will proudly represent NSW at the National iAwards in August at SkyCity Adelaide. 

 About Smart Clinician 

Smart Clinician is a suite of tools embedded in MedicalDirector Clinical that help accelerate the conduct of clinical trials at scale to enable the translation of new evidence that can improve the health and wellbeing of Australians.  

With potential to reach up to 50% of Australia’s population that sees a general practitioner (GP), Smart Clinician assists study investigators to identify, recall and with informed patient consent, reuse routinely collected clinical data for the purposes of data capture for clinical trials.  

Smart Clinician capability is embedded within the daily workflow of the software allowing GPs to participate as study investigators in clinical trials without additional effort. This includes receiving in-consult clinical decision support which screens the practice database to surface patients that meet trial eligibility criteria and providing lists of eligible patients in a visual dashboard to recall into practice.  

The Australian-first collection of tools within Smart Clinician overcomes common challenges of clinical trials allowing them to be performed by the patient’s regular primary care clinician, and accelerating translation of research into the community, ultimately benefiting the health of all Australians.