A total of three software vendors have signed a developer agreement to take part in the National eHealth Transition Authority's (NeHTA) software testing environment for the proposed national healthcare identifier (HI) service.
General practitioners are the first step in implementing an effective e-health system, according to the founder of the Institute of E-Health interest group at Nepean Hospital, Professor Mohamed Khadra.
The move towards e-health standards has taken a significant step forward as industry groups join with the National E-health Transition Authority (NEHTA) to develop an approach for the standard assessment of medical software.