Deloitte Gets Another $5M for Health Data ‘Super-Highway’

Deloitte has received $5 million from the Australian Digital Health Agency for its work on a new platform for clinicians to exchange and access health information.

The new gateway is regarded as the foundation for a new “information highway” across primary care, aged care and allied health settings, giving health practitioners more detailed patient information with the consent of consumers.

In providing a single point of access to the national digital health ecosystem, it is also expected to reduce costs and lessen the technical and operational complexity experienced by healthcare providers.

Deloitte spent the last 18 months developing the Health API Gateway, having won an initial $18 million deal in July 2021 to replace the decade-old Oracle API gateway that served the ‘My Health Record’ system.

In December 2022, the contract with Deloitte climbed $5.1 million, bringing the total bill to $25.1 million over three years. Another contract amendment in October 2022 also added $2.8 million to the contract’s total cost.

The initial three-year contract with Deloitte in 2021 kicked off a significant program of work to modernise the technology underpinnings of the My Health Record system – which is currently operated and managed by Accenture – and other national digital health systems.

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