Medical specialists in government’s sights. The Australian Digital Health Agency will dole out $360,000 for nine specialist software vendors to integrate their clinical systems with the controversial My Health Record. The partnership – aimed at boosting the use of the e-health record system by medical specialists like cardiologists and anaesthetists – will provide each Australian vendor with $40,000. It follows an expressions of interest process in May that invited software developers with systems in at least 10 private specialist practices to apply. The funding will be used by the vendors to design a seamless, secure way to link up with the My Health Record over the coming months. The ADHA will also lend its “design expertise … to co-produce improvements in design with their users”. The vendors are: Best Practice Software, Clinic to Cloud, Clinical Computers, Genie Solutions, Intrahealth, Medical-Objects, Medical Wizard, Software for Specialists and Zedmed. While many […]