Overview

Medtech Global, an Auckland-based company, provides Practice Management System (PMS) solutions to over 80% of general practices in New Zealand, making it the most widely used PMS provider in the country.

In 2020, Medtech set out to address a long-standing challenge: enabling secure third-party integration across its PMS software while maintaining data security and interoperability. This was particularly complex due to the 1000+ primary health care providers using different Medtech versions (Medtech32 and Evolution), each with unique configurations and network infrastructures.

To address this need, Medtech developed Application Layer EXchange (ALEX)—a first for general practice. Built on FHIR, ALEX is designed to securely and seamlessly connect Practice Management Systems (PMS) to a digital healthcare services ecosystem and third-party applications.

 

Key Stats

• •   Extensive Coverage API Layer: Put a secure cloud-hosted API layer over the top of the 1000 primary healthcare providers.
• •   Proven Reliability at Scale: Supports up to 1 billion transactions annually, running smoothly since 2020.
• •   FHIR-Native: Implement entirely using FHIR APIs
• •   Growing Ecosystem: 20+ third-party vendors are actively developing and launching solutions in ALEX, with more joining the platform.

Challenges

• •   Sustaining Real-Time Performance: Powering real-time access to 90% of New Zealand's primary medical data across 1,000+ health providers.
• •   Scaling for Future Growth: Keeping up performance as the number of health providers are expected to reach several thousands in the future.
• •   Implementing FHIR in Legacy Systems: Implementing the FHIR standards including International Patient Summary (IPS) within legacy systems.

Why choosing Odin NeXT?

Odin NeXT goes far beyond the challenges above, exceeding expectations with the following key advantages：

• •   Unmatched Performance & Reliability: Outperforms vendor-built solutions by handling high-volume transactions with superior throughput and resilience.
• •   Seamless Connectivity & Scalability: Connecting cloud and edge devices across healthcare environments, serving 85% of health providers in NZ with expansion plans for several thousand more.
• •   FHIR-Ready & Health-Native: Tailored for healthcare, Odin NeXT natively supports FHIR and integrates open-source HAPI FHIR, enabling legacy systems to adopt FHIR.
• •   Real-Time Capability with Extensive Features: Delivering comprehensive functions and flexibility for real-time healthcare integration with ease of use.

 

ALEX supports sharing of patient information with trusted solutions via industry standard FHIR APIs. Built using several technologies, Microsoft Azure sits at the front-end and provides the API, FHIR and authentication technology.

At the back end is the Odin NeXT Cloud Edition middleware which runs on the Microsoft Kubernetes Service, providing a solution that with great scalability. Odin NeXT performs the heavy lifting in real time including FHIR transformations, code set mappings, database lookups, API communications, logging and alerting.

“The Odin NeXT middleware was crucial to the success of the ALEX project. We now provide solution vendors with a safe, secure and scalable method of exchanging information contained in the patient record”.

- Medtech’s CEO, Dr. Geoffrey Sayer -

 

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