As the Australian health system upgrades to digital patient records, interoperability has been a hot topic among the leaders in the health IT community. But a recent report from Medical Director¹ shows that practitioners are reluctant to embrace the capabilities of data sharing and interoperability due to a number of concerns. These concerns are not specific to Australia but seen in many regions.

Calvary Health Care's Sue Hanson says; “From the outset, we never supported a one system, one vendor approach. So we looked at the market to find a vendor who would enter into a co-design process for establishing the foundations of our Digital Clinical Record". Calvary Bethlehem has seen a 75% saving in the costs associated with becoming paperless and these costs are continually decreasing.. Berne Gibbons, Vitro Software Director, talks Calvary and the four key trends driving digital innovation in healthcare...