The Australian Digital Health Agency is offering software developers financial support and the chance to workshop their plans.
The Australian Digital Health Agency (ADHA) said it wishes to take an « open-minded » approach in its search for software providers to help further enhance the My Health Record (MHR) functionality in the clinical information systems (CISs) to encourage more private specialists to use the platform. « One of the challenges in developing specialist-centric My Health Record functionality in CISs is that specialists comprise an extremely diverse user group. Different types of specialists are likely to have different information needs, and follow somewhat different workflows in accessing and sharing patient information. This industry offer has been designed to help meet that challenge, » the agency responsible for the My Health Record said. In its request for tender, the ADHA outlined it would provide financial assistance to software developers to participate in a « collaborative design exercise » with the agency, which would revolve around a « one-on-one kick-off workshop » scheduled for early May. The workshop will be an opportunity for software providers to submit a planning document containing release cycle timeframes and resource allocation plans, the ADHA said.
