Clinical and practice management software vendor MedicalDirector is in the final stages of beta testing for its next big release, which will introduce to Australian general practice new functionality that is set to fully digitise and potentially even revolutionise how GPs communicate with governments and the wider health system.

Also due to be offered by the other major GP desktop vendors besides MedicalDirector, the new HealthLink Forms functionality has been developed and rolled out in New Zealand by secure messaging specialist HealthLink.