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Telstra Health unveiled its new FHIR®-based API, Smart API+, today at the Health, Innovation and Community (HIC) Conference in Brisbane. Telstra Health Smart API+ supports seamless partner integrations, customer access to data and data exchange across Telstra Health’s primary care software solutions and the primary care ecosystem.
Telstra Health unveiled its new FHIR®-based API, Smart API+, today at the Health, Innovation and Community (HIC) Conference in Brisbane. Telstra Health Smart API+ supports seamless partner integrations, customer access to data and data exchange across Telstra Health’s primary care software solutions and the primary care ecosystem.
Telstra Health’s General Manager Ecosystem, Louise Ryves, said Smart API+ optimises access to a unique ecosystem of digital health solutions for connecting care and streamlining workflows.
“This is an important step in providing seamless access points that enable technology partners to connect digitally with Telstra Health’s primary care solutions without the need to maintain separate integrations for cloud and on-premise solutions.
“In the future, technology partners will no longer need to worry about building bespoke integrations with platform-specific data formats that have been an ongoing barrier to enabling interoperability and compatibility,” Louise said.
Built on modern, FHIR®-native technology for easy data exchange and interoperability, Smart API+ ensures data security and will initially be used by partners integrating with the Helix cloud-based general practice patient management software. Helix customers can also leverage Smart API+ to integrate their bespoke technologies, enabling greater customisation, enhanced operational efficiencies and innovative models of care.
When coupled with Smart Connected Care capability, partners in the future will be able to build-once, helping to reduce their capital costs of integration, and clinicians and managers will be able to access partner capabilities without multiple logins.
As well as seamless and secure data transference, the in-platform user interface experience can be deployed across Telstra Health’s primary care software portfolio while remaining independent of the release cycle of the underlying platform.
Technology partners with solutions that help optimise healthcare and deliver practice efficiencies can express interest in becoming a partner here. Telstra Health’s existing ecosystem of partners is available here.
Telstra Health is committed to accelerating the adoption of digital health solutions that lead to real improvements across the Australian health and aged care systems through its partnership with the CSIRO and involvement with the Australian FHIR® accelerator program Sparked.
The announcement follows the launch of Telstra Health’s exclusive partnership with Smile Digital Health to bring Smile’s HL7® FHIR® first Health Data Platform solution and integration platform to Australia and New Zealand.
Smile Digital Health technology underpins Telstra Health’s Health Information Exchange to facilitate the exchange of patient information across different healthcare organisations and systems for large customers or geographic regions, with potential applications for commonwealth, state or territory governments, large private hospital groups or private health insurers.
