In the News:Harmonie Health selected for Australian Digital Health Agency’s Allied Health Industry Offer.
Harmonie Health has been selected by the Australian Digital Health Agency (ADHA) as one of just 18 software vendors across Australia to participate in its expanded Allied Health Industry Offer. A $2 million-plus government investment to accelerate the connection of allied health professionals to Australia’s digital health infrastructure.
This is a significant milestone. And it says something important about where health technology in this country is heading.
What Is the Allied Health Industry Offer?
The Allied Health Industry Offer was launched by the ADHA in September 2024 in response to recommendations from the Strengthening Medicare Taskforce Report 2022. Its goal is straightforward: to give allied health professionals, the digital tools they need to access vital consumer health information at the point of care.
That means connecting allied health clinical software to two core pieces of national infrastructure: My Health Record and electronic prescribing.
The program initially contracted two vendors. After tripling its investment to more than $2 million, the ADHA expanded participation to 18 vendors in total, selected from across the Australian health technology sector, ranging from large software companies to smaller organisations with niche expertise.
Harmonie Health is one of them.
Why Connected Care Matters
Australia has more than 300,000 allied health professionals delivering around 200 million services every year. These professionals sit at the centre of coordinated, community-based care – particularly for older Australians, people living with disability, and those managing chronic or complex conditions.
But right now, too many of those professionals are working without a full picture of the person in front of them. Without access to a patient’s medication history, recent specialist notes, or current care plan, critical information gets lost. Decisions can get made without all of the history available.
ADHA CEO Amanda Cattermole PSM described the investment this way: “Improved information sharing is critical where broad care teams need to work together to provide the best outcomes for healthcare consumers.”
We could not agree more.
What Comes Next
Software vendors in the Allied Health Industry Offer are working with the ADHA’s specialist teams across solution architecture, clinical safety, interoperability and electronic prescribing.
For Harmonie Health, this is one part of a larger vision: a world where every Australian receiving care at home has a connected, coordinated team around them, and where the families supporting them have peace of mind that nothing falls through the cracks.
Read the full announcement below:
