The developers behind a new secure messaging platform called Bleep that has been inspired by the Slack messaging app for team communication are looking for doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals to try out the beta version, which is aimed predominantly at multi-disciplinary teams working in busy hospital wards and potentially at residential aged care facilities.

Developed by Sydney firm MedSquared and its founders Joe Logan, a doctor, and Sarah Humphreys, a health IT specialist, Bleep has been designed to provide a convenient and easy to use platform for improving communication, and includes text and clinical image capabilities as well as a task manager that clinicians can use to see what tasks other team members have called for or completed.