The Australian Digital Health Agency is consolidating My Health Record and the API Gateway into a single application support and maintenance contract as it plans a broader overhaul of its digital infrastructure.<\/p>\n
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The agency last week released a request for tender for services covering the technologies and platforms underpinning My Health Record and the API Gateway, which it describes as a cornerstone of the national connected healthcare system.<\/p>\n
The move forms part of ADHA\u2019s long-term plan to re-evaluate its decade-long National Infrastructure Operator (NIO) arrangement, which has been held by Accenture since 2012.<\/p>\n
The request for tender marks the first time the now-$788 million<\/a> digital infrastructure arrangement with Accenture has gone to competitive tender in over a decade.<\/p>\n New documents<\/a> have lifted the lid on the complex architectural web underpinning My Health Record and the API Gateway, the latter of which was redeveloped by Deloitte<\/a>.<\/p>\n My Health Record is built on a suite of Oracle technologies that underpin its core data, application and security layers, with the Oracle Database Enterprise Edition as a foundation.<\/p>\n Oracle Access Manager, alongside Splunk and Symantec, form key security components. Meanwhile, Oracle Healthcare Data Repository and Oracle Health Sciences Information Manager support healthcare data storage and indexing.<\/p>\n According to the documents, ADHA currently holds 28 million perpetual Oracle user licences to enable end-user engagement of the My Health Record system.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Adobe Experience Manager underpins key user portals within the system, including the National Consumer Portal, National Provider Portal, and Administration Portal.<\/p>\n A core gateway<\/p>\n The other core part of the tender covers ADHA\u2019s API Gateway, described by the agency as \u201ca touchpoint for external stakeholders to engage with [it] and support connected healthcare services\u201d.<\/p>\n The API Gateway currently supports 125 APIs of \u201cvarying complexity\u201d, according to tender documents.<\/p>\n The system went live in 2022 after ADHA decided to replace a previous Oracle gateway that was managed by Accenture.<\/p>\n The new gateway is hosted on Microsoft Azure and is built on the Red Hat OpenShift platform.<\/p>\n