The Australian Digital Health Agency (ADHA) has managed to wrangle the medical software industry, the jurisdictions and healthcare providers on board a new program to work towards a functioning, interoperable secure messaging system, adopting a cooperative model that it says will ensure the agency is held to account for its work.

As reported by Pulse+IT yesterday, the ADHA has set up a program board headed by the chair of the RACGP's expert committee on eHealth, Nathan Pinskier, and eHealth Queensland CEO Mal Thatcher, along with WA community representative Fiona Panagoulias, that will tackle the lack of interoperability in secure messaging as a priority.