Telstra Health now a licensed portal operator for My Health Record

Telstra Health has joined IT systems integrator Chamonix, digital health start-up Tyde and online appointment booking service HealthEngine as a licensed portal operator for the My Health Record, meaning consumers using its new HealthNow app can also access their MyHR through the app.

Chamonix, best known for developing the HIPS middleware solution that is being used by 500 public hospitals and 120 private hospitals to link to the national system and is shortly to go into production to help Sonic Healthcare begin uploading pathology reports, was the the first company to release an authorised app, called Healthi.