Nice to have a proper tech demo at a health event - go to a terminal window to see the details. Brian Postlethwaite from Microsoft Research showing some #FHIR server work at the #HL7 symposium in Sydney today.

The irrepressible George Margelis opens the #itac2025 conference on technology in aged care. Looking forward to two days of good discussions and insights.

Kicking things off with @ecoiera.bsky.social at today’s health AI conference in Melbourne. Very useful scorecard and update on progress in AI for health in the last year. (Spoiler - it’s a lot of activity!) #digitalhealth

Super-exciting news from Down Under: today Health Minister Butler introduced legislation to Parliament to mandate sharing of pathology results and medical imaging to patients through the #MyHealthRecord portal. We call it #ShareByDefault 😎🥰🥳 www.health.gov.au/resources/pu...

For those of you for whom #Sparked on #FHIR is new. Basically its an Australian-wide initiative to make sure our health infornation and diverse health system is #interoperable No more proprietary APIs and no #Informationblocking It’s industry+clinical+govt led. Very cool! 😎 sparked.csiro.au

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Great point from Graeme Grieve about the two vital parts for #FHIR implementation - an enthusiastic bottom up standards program (aka #sparked in Australia), and solid top down leadership from government. Fantastic that we have both of those things in #digitalhealth in Australia at present. Huzzah.

Feels like the old days of social media when I’m reposting @drlouiseschaper.bsky.social about digital health 😆

Dr Louise Schaper@drlouiseschaper.bsky.social · 2y ago

So proud of the Aust govt leadership connecting standards to improved health outcomes. Daniel McCabe gets it and he has mobilised a huge community to make it happen #Sparked #FHIR #digitalhealth

First post here, and of course it’s from a #digitalhealth event. Listening to Daniel McCabe from Dept Health discussing the forward path for an interoperable health system in Australia. The Sparked program and #fhir work is pushing this whole space ahead at speed. Good stuff.