EMR giant Allscripts will offer its dbMotion interoperability platform to the Australian and New Zealand healthcare markets as a cloud solution via Microsoft Azure, promising faster implementation and lower upgrade costs than the on-premise version.

dbMotion, which Allscripts bought in 2013, is a service-oriented architecture solution that allows disparate pieces of health data held in different systems and sites to be brought together as a de facto patient record at the point of care.