Global Health Ltd (ASX:GLH) is playing a key role in the Australian Digital Health Agency’s (ADHA) trials for secure messaging.
The trials are a vital step to the healthcare industry becoming fax-free, a structural shift that will result in considerable cost savings.
The ADHA and the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) have helped fast-tracked interoperability efforts after listening to key partners in the healthcare industry.
ReferralNet Secure Message Delivery is Global Health’s secure message delivery platform for the exchange of confidential clinical and patient information between healthcare providers.
Nikki Thrift, general manager of connectivity, commented: “It is great to see a definitive focus from both the ADHA and RACGP on the removal of the fax machine from healthcare which parallels with the efforts and achievements of all secure messaging vendors for the past 20 years.”
Message volume expected to grow further
The ADHA’s latest round of consortiums builds upon existing interoperability efforts between Global Health’s ReferralNet and Telstra Health’s Argus.
The volume of messages exchanged between the two software vendors has increased considerably since establishing the collaboration in 2016 and is expected to further increase in the next 6-12 months.
Global Health believes that there are not only are obvious efficiency wins by exchanging information direct from system to system, but also direct cost savings for all parties.
Benefits for Global Heatlh
ReferralNet already naturally integrates with Global Health’s existing clinical systems including: MasterCare EMR, MasterCare PAS, PrimaryClinic and MasterCare+ for Referral Management.
Achieving interoperability with other vendors will expand Global Health’s footprint in the secure messaging market.
Increasing the number of sites ReferralNet customers can send to will improve overall as customers continue to build their referral network within their communities.