Melbourne’s Austin Health will be the first health service in the Asia Pacific region to implement Cerner’s Fast Health Interoperability Resources (FHIR) service, allowing it to access both Cerner and third-party SMART on FHIR apps as part of its interoperability strategy.

Austin Health is also taking advantage of Microsoft’s FHIR capabilities to exploit the capabilities of the Microsoft suite it uses, including Office 365, Azure and in another innovation for a health service, Microsoft’s Dynamics customer relationship management (CRM) platform.