Jul 5, 2026 · 39 min · 14 segments
Australia’s journey toward interoperable digital health depends on how well states and territories can align their distinct approaches. In this episode, it focuses on the realities of FHIR adoption in…
Peter SprivulisGuest
Peter BirchHost
Marc BelejGuest
Andrew AhoGuest
And you could take one perspective in that, well, you know, there's the rules and the infrastructure that's set at a national or a federal perspective.
But sometimes I feel that there's a lot of influence that comes from the states into how things work across the nation as well.
Andrew, I'd love to get your take, not that you represent a federal body or anything, but more so because you see the technology that comes across Australia and other parts of the world too through the stuff you do with InterSystems.
Do you have any perspective on like the role that states play and how you've observed it in setting the pace and direction for national fire adoption and any examples you've seen of like where that leadership's already emerging?
Yeah well I think certainly a different perspective to Mark and Peter but I think we are seeing in both of their examples where jurisdictions are moving from fire as a concept it's something that we might have talked about for a long time to actually becoming part of the procurements part of implementation and that's where I think we'll really start to see things change it's Often it's not hard for some forward-thinking vendors to adopt these sorts of standards and you'll get pilots and POCs and even real-world projects where we can see very good use of fire in our customer base.
So I think it's critically important to realise the role that the states play in getting these standards.
The learnings that come from that, the challenges, the investment required, what it takes to engage industry and to work collaboratively, all of those things I think are critically important and what we get out of Having states like WA and South Australia actually taking these steps helps us all along that journey.
What's interesting, I find, is that, say, for Mark or for Peter in this conversation, there can be all best intentions to need to innovate and do things differently and move fast and do something different.
But it all needs to be aligned with ensuring nationally consistent, safe and high quality data.
And you could take one perspective in that, well, you know, there's the rules and the infrastructure that's set at a national or a federal perspective.
But sometimes I feel that there's a lot of influence that comes from the states into how things work across the nation as well.
Andrew, I'd love to get your take, not that you represent a federal body or anything, but more so because you see the technology that comes across Australia and other parts of the world too through the stuff you do with InterSystems.
Do you have any perspective on like the role that states play and how you've observed it in setting the pace and direction for national fire adoption and any examples you've seen of like where that leadership's already emerging?
Yeah well I think certainly a different perspective to Mark and Peter but I think we are seeing in both of their examples where jurisdictions are moving from fire as a concept it's something that we might have talked about for a long time to actually becoming part of the procurements part of implementation and that's where I think we'll really start to see things change it's Often it's not hard for some forward-thinking vendors to adopt these sorts of standards and you'll get pilots and POCs and even real-world projects where we can see very good use of fire in our customer base.
So I think it's critically important to realise the role that the states play in getting these standards.
The learnings that come from that, the challenges, the investment required, what it takes to engage industry and to work collaboratively, all of those things I think are critically important and what we get out of Having states like WA and South Australia actually taking these steps helps us all along that journey.
What's interesting, I find, is that, say, for Mark or for Peter in this conversation, there can be all best intentions to need to innovate and do things differently and move fast and do something different.
But it all needs to be aligned with ensuring nationally consistent, safe and high quality data.
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